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.
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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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.
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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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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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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