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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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 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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Spectacle Makers: Thoughts on design from Daniel Weil
Daniel Weil’s studio is a living archive. One gets the sense that nothing within is a complete artefact, all adding up to an ever evolving gestalt....
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Spectacle Makers: An interview with Faye Toogood
Toogood is a design studio that refuses to be constrained by any one discipline. Founded and led by Faye Toogood, she and her team create timeless ...
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An interview with Nicky Goulder, Founding Chief Executive of Create
For Spectacle Makers, Cubitts worked with nine renowned creatives from a broad spectrum of disciplines, to design one-off spectacles bridging art a...
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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 vis...
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Spectacle Makers: an interview with Laxmi Hussain
Laxmi Hussain is an artist from London, and one of nine Spectacle Makers for London Design Festival. Her spectacles transform her free flowing figu...
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Talking bottoms with Wilfrid Wood
For as long as humans have been making art, they've been making it of bottoms. Show me a gallery, and I'll show you a patron peering over the top o...
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The Cubitts Podcast Episode 5: Claire Goldsmith
In the final episode of this series, Tom speaks to fellow member of the spectacle enthusiast community, Claire Goldsmith, director of Oliver Goldsm...
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The Cubitts Podcast Episode 4: Tim Little
In the latest episode of the Cubitts Podcast, Tom speaks to Tim Little, managing director of heritage shoemakers Grenson.Leaving a successful caree...
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The Cubitts Podcast Episode 3: Lally MacBeth
The third episode of the Cubitts podcast introduces a different sort of Emotional Utilitarian.
Lally MacBeth is the co-founder of Stone Club, a col...
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The Cubitts Podcast Episode 2: Marie Carlisle
In the second episode of the Cubitts podcast, Tom talks to Marie Carlisle, co-founder of bespoke furniture maker Goldfinger, based in the ground fl...
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An interview with Wilfrid Wood
Wilfrid is a sculptor, of heads mostly. His approach lies somewhere between no-nonsense, and nonsense. And on his head, he wears a pair of Carnegie...
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An interview with Poan Pan
Poan is an illustrator. His work revels in that most glorious avenue of everyday awkwardness. And his spectacles, the rather fetching Barlow in Sil...
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