Solaris. Cubitts — WAWWA
Cubitts – WAWWA is a collaboration celebrating modern craft, utility and thoughtful making — bringing together WAWWA's versatile garments, designed...
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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.
21 posts
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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The Eye That Sees All
The Eye That Sees All is our exploration of the beauty of the human eye; a journey that begins at the surface and travels inward, from glass-clear ...
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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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New York, 1980s
New York, 1980s: A sunglasses collection inspired by the city of excess, energy, and intrigue. Twenty-five exclusive frames, each named after a hal...
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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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A very Cubitts cake
At Cubitts, we hold ourselves to lofty principles of design simplicity. But who doesn’t break the rules on their birthday?
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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Elton John: A tribute
As Elton John once said, ‘what the hell is wrong with expressing yourself’. We couldn’t agree more. In tribute to the man himself, two frames inspi...
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Donald Judd: Emotional Utilitarian
To coincide with our new collection, we’re celebrating history’s Emotional Utilitarians. Designer-makers who committed themselves to the very plain...
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Isamu Noguchi: Emotional Utilitarian
To coincide with our new collection, we’re celebrating history’s emotional utilitarians. Designer-makers who committed themselves to the very plain...
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Cubitts x Henry Moore Institute: Tools and Craftsmanship
In the third instalment of our collaboration with the Henry Moore Institute, we’re continuing our conversation with archivist Errin Hussey, this ti...
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Cubitts X Henry Moore Institute: Curiosity
In the second instalment of Cubitts’ collaboration with the Henry Moore Institute, we’re continuing our conversation this time exploring the theme ...
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Introducing our REDUX acetate
Most high quality spectacles are made from cellulose acetate, a rather beautiful material made primarily from wood pulp and cotton. It's hard weari...
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