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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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 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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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 plain...
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Eileen Gray: 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: Faces and Noses
For this edition of our conversation with Errin Hussey of the Henry Moore Institute we focus on our fascination with the human head and its legacy ...
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Cubitts x Errin Hussey of the Henry Moore Institute: Spectacles in sculpture
For this edition of our conversation with Errin Hussey of the Henry Moore Institute we focus on the depiction of spectacles in sculpture and their ...
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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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