Cirrus: The art of iteration

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A moment in Marylebone

Marylebone is a place where history intertwines with vibrant community spirit, a village within the city that feels timeless yet alive. On a recent... [ Continue ]

Edward Hopper's visions of New York

Edward Hopper lived his entire life in New York and its surrounding areas. It was a place he knew deeply, his work celebrates its distinctive archi... [ Continue ]

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A history of the navigator

You’d be forgiven for thinking that ‘the aviator’ (spectacles and sunglasses featuring sweeping teardrop lenses and a double bridge) was the defini... [ Continue ]

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Spectacle Makers: Thoughts on design from Daniel Weil

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Spectacle Makers: An interview with Faye Toogood

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Spectacle Makers: An interview with Yinka Ilori

Yinka Ilori is a British-Nigerian multidisciplinary artist and designer and—now—Spectacle Maker. His frame for London Design Festival draws on his ... [ Continue ]

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Spectacle Makers: An interview with Jaimus Tailor

Jaimus Tailor is the founder of Greater Goods, a design and making brand with an ethos of turning ‘nothing into something’. For his spectacle frame... [ Continue ]

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An interview with Nicky Goulder, Founding Chief Executive of Create

For Spectacle Makers, Cubitts worked with nine renowned creatives from a broad spectrum of disciplines, to design one-off spectacles bridging art a... [ Continue ]

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Spectacle Makers: An interview with David Shrigley

As part of Spectacle Makers for London Design Festival 2024, the artist David Shrigley designed a frame with one big eye, and one small eye. We vis... [ Continue ]

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Spectacle Makers: an interview with Laxmi Hussain

Laxmi Hussain is an artist from London, and one of nine Spectacle Makers for London Design Festival. Her spectacles transform her free flowing figu... [ Continue ]

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Talking bottoms with Wilfrid Wood

For as long as humans have been making art, they've been making it of bottoms. Show me a gallery, and I'll show you a patron peering over the top o... [ Continue ]

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New York in the frame

Seven one-off spectacle frames designed with an admiration for New York’s places and faces. From the Mudd Club to Studio 54, the Flatiron to the... [ Continue ]

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Cubitts' first garden tool

We've collaborated with Niwaki, makers of fine Japanese tools, to produce a spectacle frame designed to withstand the rigours of the garden. To cel... [ Continue ]

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Nothing new under the sun

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Recreating a military frame

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London and a history of spectacle making

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A very Cubitts cake

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A decade of spectacle obsession

A decade ago, we started with a very loose idea of building a spectacles company for people who want to wear spectacles. Ten years in, my beard is ... [ Continue ]

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An interview with Kelly Anna

Kelly Anna has created her vital energetic artworks for trainers, football pitches, stickers, and now a new Cubitts cleaning cloth. We sat down wit... [ Continue ]

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Surrealism, objects, and spectacles

Spectacles are not new to surrealism. Marcel Mariën’s The Untraceable is a pair of spectacles with a single lens (should that be: a spectacle?). It... [ Continue ]

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An interview with David Usborne

Cubitts' first exhibition, The Emotional Utilitarian, is composed of objects collected by David Usborne, a magpie for the beautifully functional. W... [ Continue ]