Homecoming: Melanie Sykes in Manchester
For the opening of Cubitts Manchester, we spent a day travelling across the city with Melanie Sykes - artist, broadcaster and daughter of Greater M...
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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.
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Chrome Waves: Ascend into Summer
The city’s a stretch. A dreamy stretch in this height of heat for you’re a pleasure bell rippling outwards, sumptuous, bright, fortunate, for you f...
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Chrome Waves: A softer expression of steel
A collection designed around lightness; in structure, in line, and in the way each frame sits on the face. As light as good manners, and rather mor...
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An interview with Kit de Waal
Kit de Waal is a writer, screenwriter, playwright and activist whose work brings a rare combination of compassion, humour and hard-won truth to the...
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An interview with Gerry Farrell
Gerry is a retired art dealer who had galleries in Japan and London. Now he spends his time tending and adding to his 200 Bonsai trees.
An Interview with Murugiah
Murugiah is a multidisciplinary artist whose vibrant, surreal, and architecturally informed works. Originally trained as an architect, he brings a ...
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An interview with Jeff ‘Swampy’ Marsh
Jeff “Swampy” Marsh is a writer, director, voice actor, musician, and lifelong doodler,
After leaving a successful career in marketing to pursue so...
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An interview with Dominic Sandbrook
Dominic Sandbrook is one of Britain’s best-known public historians, celebrated for his bestselling books on post-war Britain, his BBC documentaries...
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A New Chapter in the Art of Spectacle
We’ve reimagined our packaging and accessories from first principles; an exploration into what it means to care for the things we own. Working with...
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Takiron: The Art of Patience
For almost a century, Takiron has been quietly perfecting the art of acetate in Japan. Their process is less industrial cycle and more ritual: two ...
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A Golden Age
Our new collection of spectacles is drawn from the late 1920s, when London stood as the optical capital of the world. It was an age of smoky cafés ...
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Cirrus: The art of iteration
True innovation rarely announces itself. It emerges quietly, through the careful refinement of details and the convergence of disciplines. Cirrus, ...
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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...
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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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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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