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...
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Journal
Peripheral vision happens away from the centre of your gaze. Outside the ‘point of fixation’ as optometrists would have it. The fuzzy edges.
Discover how far these fuzzy edges stretch in The Spectacle. Interviews with curious folk, design and architecture that inspires and bespoke spectacle design.
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...
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Spectacle Makers: Thoughts on design from Daniel Weil
Daniel Weil’s studio is a living archive. One gets the sense that nothing within is a complete artefact, all adding up to an ever evolving gestalt....
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Spectacle Makers: An interview with Faye Toogood
Toogood is a design studio that refuses to be constrained by any one discipline. Founded and led by Faye Toogood, she and her team create timeless ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Nothing new under the sun
The Inuit people, indigenous to the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska, have long faced some of the harshest environmental conditions ...
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Recreating a military frame
The 1970s were a transformative period for the U.S, marked by technological advancements. Among these innovations was the introduction of the S9 mi...
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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...
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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...
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A blind date with Bespoke+
The first of two bespoke frames for mystery customers, designed purely in response to their character.
Cubitts x Edinburgh College of Art
The jewellery students at Edinburgh College of Art have taken on that most noble art of spectacle design, with a brief to create a frame inspired b...
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