Interviews
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Interviews
The Cubitts Podcast, Episode 1: Matt Gibberd
So begins the first series of The Cubitts Podcast, in which founder Tom Broughton sits down with a selection of Emotional Utilitarians (people) to discuss their Emotional Utilitarians (objects). Each guest will bring in three functional objects from their life, and wax lyrical while concealing a tear in their eye.Our first Emotional Utilitarian is Matt Gibberd, co-founder of the UK’s first design-led estate agency, The Modern House. They curate and celebrate houses along principles of space, light, and materiality, and have in common with Cubitts a fondness for the utilitarian principles of modernism. In 2021, Matt and his business partner Albert Hill established a sister brand, Inigo, adding a flair of the romantic with a focus on historic houses. He also hosts Homing In, exploring the lives of his guests through the places they’ve lived.
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Articles
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 Guggenheim. Handmade in the Cubitts King’s Cross workshop. The Mudd Club A neo-expressionist ode to the Mudd Club, antidote to the glamour of Studio 54 and second home to Lower Manhattan’s underground scene during the turn of the 1980s. Based on the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who called the club a second home during its brief heyday. With details taken from his paintings: a contrasting colour palette in hand laminated acetate, sharp expressive edges, and folding inner temple 'eyes'.
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Gerald Summers: Emotional Utilitarian
To coincide with our new collection, we’re celebrating history’s Emotional Utilitarians. Designer-makers who committed themselves to the very plainly functional, with a touch of romanticism. For our ‘bent lug’ frames, Handel and Kember, we looked to Gerald Summers’ obsessive experimentation with plywood furniture.
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Interviews
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 visited him in his Brighton studio, to talk about his work, and about why you shouldn’t pay too much attention to the things artists say about their work.
Articles
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 Guggenheim. Handmade in the Cubitts King’s Cross workshop. The Mudd Club A neo-expressionist ode to the Mudd Club, antidote to the glamour of Studio 54 and second home to Lower Manhattan’s underground scene during the turn of the 1980s. Based on the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, who called the club a second home during its brief heyday. With details taken from his paintings: a contrasting colour palette in hand laminated acetate, sharp expressive edges, and folding inner temple 'eyes'.
Interviews
The Cubitts Podcast, Episode 1: Matt Gibberd
So begins the first series of The Cubitts Podcast, in which founder Tom Broughton sits down with a selection of Emotional Utilitarians (people) to discuss their Emotional Utilitarians (objects). Each guest will bring in three functional objects from their life, and wax lyrical while concealing a tear in their eye.Our first Emotional Utilitarian is Matt Gibberd, co-founder of the UK’s first design-led estate agency, The Modern House. They curate and celebrate houses along principles of space, light, and materiality, and have in common with Cubitts a fondness for the utilitarian principles of modernism. In 2021, Matt and his business partner Albert Hill established a sister brand, Inigo, adding a flair of the romantic with a focus on historic houses. He also hosts Homing In, exploring the lives of his guests through the places they’ve lived.
Articles
Gerald Summers: Emotional Utilitarian
To coincide with our new collection, we’re celebrating history’s Emotional Utilitarians. Designer-makers who committed themselves to the very plainly functional, with a touch of romanticism. For our ‘bent lug’ frames, Handel and Kember, we looked to Gerald Summers’ obsessive experimentation with plywood furniture.