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Romanticise and fantasise the organised and categorised.
Treat your spectacles as you would a lover. In most ways.
Meditations on millimetres and deliberations on dimensions.
Gerald Summers. Maker of simple furniture. Plywood poet. Emotional Utilitarian. Read more in our journal.
Moray. Antidote to ornament.
The extraordinary utility, the storied quite ordinary.
Donald Judd was equally concerned with loosening the grip of metaphor on art as finding a good lamp. Read more in our journal.
For the contemplative meticulous, romantics for particulars.
‘Everything is sculpture.’ Discover Isamu Noguchi, Emotional Utilitarian.
Caring for your spectacles. A guide for the Emotional Utilitarian.
Untitled. A frame which speaks for itself.
Hard not to feel a tingle when the well-designed essential fulfils its potential.
‘Sometimes all that is required is the choice of a beautiful material worked with sincere simplicity.’ Discover Eileen Gray, Emotional Utilitarian.
When it comes to spectacle sizing, the Emotional Utilitarian is sensitive to a millimetre’s inaccuracy.
For the pragmatic enigmatic, systematic charismatic.
Noguchi (frame). An Emotional Utilitarian (object) based on an Emotional Utilitarian (person (Noguchi (artist)))
I'm not the clip flipper I'm the clip flipper's son and I'm only flipping clips til the flip clipper comes.
Everybody lose it when the clip flips.
Beauty and harmony are rooted in the ancient measurement of the cubit. Coincidence? Yes.
The time for speculation is now. Try on spectacles virtually with The Speculator.
Find a frame to suit your character. Or the character you’d like to be.
Always judge someone on the colour of their sunglasses.
9.5 out of 10 people would recommend Cubitts. We're working on the other 0.5.
With any work of art, it’s what’s inside the frame that counts. Our exquisite lenses.
The Newsletter. Click here to sign up for advice on choosing better spectacles, care tips, exclusive access and invites, and more.
The first rule of choosing a spectacle style: there are no rules. Only guidelines.
If your spectacles live on the wild side, we offer complimentary frame rehabs.
An aluminium sanctuary. A case to call home.
The eyes are windows to the soul. The Speculator is a window to the future.
Your eyes are about 1 inch across and weigh 0.25 ounces.
Complimentary cleaning cloth, featuring artwork from Dalia James.
To browse slowly is to own with commitment.
Our eye exams are about much more than just checking your prescription. Click here to book.
Frames in extra small to extra large. Goldilocks would have a lovely time.
The human eye can differentiate approximately 10 million different colours.
In both objects and people, highly-polished is only half as interesting as handsomely scuffed.
Ommetaphobia is the fear of eyes.
We’re asking the important questions. Like what spectacles would suit the Artful Dodger? Grace Kelly? Gollum?
There is no one more interesting than you. It’s time to choose a frame.
'Speculator, speculator, on the screen. Do I suit Army Green?'
The world's most common eye colour is brown.
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Articles
Guides

Guides

Caring for your spectacles

Articles

Isamu Noguchi: Emotional Utilitarian

Articles

Eileen Gray: Emotional Utilitarian

Guides

Turning spectacles into sunglasses, like water into wine.

Guides

How to choose a spectacle style.

Guides

A guide to tinted lenses in all their technicolour glory.

A tinted lens is so much more than sun protection. It’s mystery. Intrigue.

Read more

Articles

Surrealism, objects, and spectacles.

Articles

An interview with TOAST.

Articles

Ten surprising objects for ten years.

Articles

Cloth Collective: Belgravia

Articles

An interview with Margaret Sweeney

Articles

An interview with Malinda Esankamal

Articles

An interview with Poan Pan

Articles

An interview with Dalia James

Articles

Cubitts x Edinburgh College of Art

Articles

An interview with Edinburgh Weavers

Articles

Cloth Collective: Leeds

Articles

Cloth Collective: Operations

Articles

Our tapestry workshop with Dalia James

Articles

Introducing our REDUX acetate

Articles

An interview with spectacle designer extraordinaire, Max Fosh

Articles

Cubitts Lates: Sculpting Heads with Wilfrid Wood

Articles

Cubitts Spitalfields x Crisis

Articles

The optical industry and sizing: An interview with Tom Broughton

Articles

A nose by any other name

Articles

Cubitts x Henry Moore Institute: Faces and Noses

Articles

Introducing the Hampstead Collection

Articles

Cubitts x Leeds Modernist Society

Articles

Pizza frames: Frames for the upside down

Articles

Cubitts x Henry Moore Institute: Modernist Approaches

Articles

Cloth Collective: Notting Hill

Articles

Introducing our first wearable cleaning cloth with SPOKE

Articles

Awkward Architecture

Articles

Cloth Collective: Covent Garden

Articles

Cloth Collective: Cubitts Coal Drops Yard

Articles

Cloth Collective: Cubitts Spitalfields

Articles

Give your old frames new life

Articles

Cloth Collective: Cubitts St. James’s

Articles

Cubitts x Henry Moore Institute: A conversation in the archives

Articles

Cloth Collective: Soho

Articles

Colour Makes People Happy

Articles

Cubitts in conversation: The Modernist Society

Articles

FUSED: Cubitts × Yair Neuman

Articles

Cubitts in Conversation: David Shrigley OBE

Articles

Design a frame competition

Articles

A Frame for London

Articles

A frame made of wool

Articles

London and spectacles, a brief history

Articles

Commercial Street, Spitalfields. A century of hawkers and traders.

Articles

The Spirit of Soho

Articles

REDUX origins

Articles

Gerald Summers: Emotional Utilitarian

An understated plywood poet, and an inspiration for Handel and Kember.

Read more

Articles

Donald Judd: Emotional Utilitarian

Guides

A guide to varifocal lenses.

Guides

A guide to size and fit.

Articles

An interview with The Cartoon Museum

Articles

Untitled, 2023, Swings, roundabouts

Articles

A walk through the works of Morag Myerscough in London.

Articles

A blind date with Bespoke+

Articles

An interview with Jeremy Lee

Articles

An interview with Mohamed Musa

Articles

An interview with Wilfrid Wood

Articles

An interview with Amelia Derrick

Articles

The Cubitts aluminium case. A suitable spectacles sanctuary.

Articles

Architectural Incongruities

Articles

Spectacles for the colour obsessed

Guides

A guide to our new ZEISS lenses

Articles

An interview with Michael Challenger

Articles

Spectacles fit for a pharaoh

Articles

Cloth Collective: Cambridge

Articles

An interview with Dalia James

Articles

Cubitts Lates: Data Drawing with Stefanie Posavec

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Cloth Collective: Brighton

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An ode to the standard deviation

Articles

Our data discoveries

Articles

The Spectacle 07: Uncommon Sense

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Cloth Collective: Hampstead

Articles

The Visionary Streak: Blindness and Literary History

Articles

Cubitts for Soho Music Month

Articles

Elton John: A tribute

Articles

Cubitts x Mr P.

Articles

A triptych for summer

Articles

Cubitts x Errin Hussey of the Henry Moore Institute: Spectacles in sculpture

Articles

Cubitts x Henry Moore Institute: Tools and Craftsmanship

Articles

A wander through Cheapside

Articles

Cubitts X Henry Moore Institute: Curiosity

Articles

Welcome to Cubitts Cheapside

Articles

Cubitts in Conversation: Laxmi Hussain

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Cloth Collective: Borough

Articles

Cubitts in conversation: Vision Foundation

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Your eyes are magnificent feats of biological engineering

Articles

A Winged Victory for the Sullen

Articles

Cubitts × G . F Smith

Articles

The Spectacles Trolley

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RETROSPECTIVE: London, Spectacles, and Half a Millennia.

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The Pen is Mightier than the Swarf

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Welcome to the Peepers Show

Articles

The Ganton: Our homage to 1966 Soho.

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Cubitts meets Cynthia Erivo

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Wilfrid Wood: Drawing from photos is for wimps

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Pies and mash and bricks and mortar.

To mark the launch of Cubitts Broadway Market in the site that houses F. Cooke's pie and mash shop for over a century, we're looking at the architectural dimension of this East London delicacy.

Read more

Guides

Caring for your spectacles

Articles

Gerald Summers: Emotional Utilitarian

An understated plywood poet, and an inspiration for Handel and Kember.

Read more

Articles

Isamu Noguchi: Emotional Utilitarian

Articles

Donald Judd: Emotional Utilitarian

Articles

Eileen Gray: Emotional Utilitarian

Guides

A guide to varifocal lenses.

Guides

Turning spectacles into sunglasses, like water into wine.

Guides

A guide to size and fit.

Guides

How to choose a spectacle style.

Articles

An interview with The Cartoon Museum

Guides

A guide to tinted lenses in all their technicolour glory.

A tinted lens is so much more than sun protection. It’s mystery. Intrigue.

Read more

Articles

Untitled, 2023, Swings, roundabouts

Articles

Surrealism, objects, and spectacles.

Articles

A walk through the works of Morag Myerscough in London.

Articles

An interview with TOAST.

Articles

Ten surprising objects for ten years.

Articles

A blind date with Bespoke+

Articles

Cloth Collective: Belgravia

Articles

An interview with Jeremy Lee

Articles

An interview with Margaret Sweeney

Articles

An interview with Mohamed Musa

Articles

An interview with Malinda Esankamal

Articles

An interview with Wilfrid Wood

Articles

An interview with Poan Pan

Articles

An interview with Amelia Derrick

Articles

An interview with Dalia James

Articles

The Cubitts aluminium case. A suitable spectacles sanctuary.

Articles

Cubitts x Edinburgh College of Art

Articles

Architectural Incongruities

Articles

An interview with Edinburgh Weavers

Articles

Spectacles for the colour obsessed

Articles

Cloth Collective: Leeds

Guides

A guide to our new ZEISS lenses

Articles

Cloth Collective: Operations

Articles

An interview with Michael Challenger

Articles

Our tapestry workshop with Dalia James

Articles

Spectacles fit for a pharaoh

Articles

Introducing our REDUX acetate

Articles

Cloth Collective: Cambridge

Articles

An interview with spectacle designer extraordinaire, Max Fosh

Articles

An interview with Dalia James

Articles

Cubitts Lates: Sculpting Heads with Wilfrid Wood

Articles

Cubitts Lates: Data Drawing with Stefanie Posavec

Articles

Cubitts Spitalfields x Crisis

Articles

Cloth Collective: Brighton

Articles

The optical industry and sizing: An interview with Tom Broughton

Articles

An ode to the standard deviation

Articles

A nose by any other name

Articles

Our data discoveries

Articles

Cubitts x Henry Moore Institute: Faces and Noses

Articles

The Spectacle 07: Uncommon Sense

Articles

Introducing the Hampstead Collection

Articles

Cloth Collective: Hampstead

Articles

Cubitts x Leeds Modernist Society

Articles

The Visionary Streak: Blindness and Literary History

Articles

Pizza frames: Frames for the upside down

Articles

Cubitts for Soho Music Month

Articles

Cubitts x Henry Moore Institute: Modernist Approaches

Articles

Elton John: A tribute

Articles

Cloth Collective: Notting Hill

Articles

Cubitts x Mr P.

Articles

Introducing our first wearable cleaning cloth with SPOKE

Articles

A triptych for summer

Articles

Awkward Architecture

Articles

Cubitts x Errin Hussey of the Henry Moore Institute: Spectacles in sculpture

Articles

Cloth Collective: Covent Garden

Articles

Cubitts x Henry Moore Institute: Tools and Craftsmanship

Articles

Cloth Collective: Cubitts Coal Drops Yard

Articles

A wander through Cheapside

Articles

Cloth Collective: Cubitts Spitalfields

Articles

Cubitts X Henry Moore Institute: Curiosity

Articles

Give your old frames new life

Articles

Welcome to Cubitts Cheapside

Articles

Cloth Collective: Cubitts St. James’s

Articles

Cubitts in Conversation: Laxmi Hussain

Articles

Cubitts x Henry Moore Institute: A conversation in the archives

Articles

Cloth Collective: Borough

Articles

Cloth Collective: Soho

Articles

Cubitts in conversation: Vision Foundation

Articles

Colour Makes People Happy

Articles

Your eyes are magnificent feats of biological engineering

Articles

Cubitts in conversation: The Modernist Society

Articles

A Winged Victory for the Sullen

Articles

FUSED: Cubitts × Yair Neuman

Articles

Cubitts × G . F Smith

Articles

Cubitts in Conversation: David Shrigley OBE

Articles

The Spectacles Trolley

Articles

Design a frame competition

Articles

RETROSPECTIVE: London, Spectacles, and Half a Millennia.