An interview with Michael Challenger
Reflections on a lifetime of creating art from geometry, connecting engines and modernism, music and Carl Jung. From the eighth edition of The Spec...
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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.
Spectacles fit for a pharaoh
A century ago to this day, Howard Carter opened the tomb of Tutenkhamun. When the dust cleared he saw a trove of ‘wonderful things’. A pair of gold...
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REDUX origins
Spectacle making is not sustainable.
The latest in our REDUX initiative has been produced to address the mounting problem of acetate wastage....
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The optical industry and sizing: An interview with Tom Broughton
Spectacles are everywhere. Over 65% of people in the UK wear them. There’s thousands of manufacturers, making them easy to purchase, and simple to ...
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The Visionary Streak: Blindness and Literary History
Since the Ancient Greeks, poor eyesight has corresponded with visionary capability. The archetypal blind seer shows up again and again in mythology...
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Pizza frames: Frames for the upside down
A pair of sensory deprivation sunglasses inspired by Stranger Things, complete with a flip up pizza box lid and satisfyingly retro temples.
Cubitts for Soho Music Month
A series of one-off frames to celebrate Soho Music Month, made in Cubitts’ workshop. The musicians were selected for their incredible (and of...
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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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A triptych for summer
Summer 2022 marked a century since the Semana de Arte Moderna (Modern Art Week) in São Paulo, the official introduction of Modernism into Brazil. T...
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Colour Makes People Happy
Simon March is a famous shopkeeper who creates and sells colour. One dark and gloomy day, we sat down to make a colour together for Cubitts. The r...
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Cubitts × G . F Smith
Founded in Hull in 1885, G . F Smith is renowned for being the maker and curator of the world’s finest paper.
Cubitts in Conversation: David Shrigley OBE
From the absurdly elongated thumb he put on the Fourth Plinth to his ‘heroin’ and ‘cocaine’ salt and pepper shakers, the artwork of David Shr...
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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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The Cubitts Podcast, Episode 1: Matt Gibberd
So begins the first series of The Cubitts Podcast, in which founder Tom Broughton sits down with a selection of Emotional Utilitarians (people) to ...
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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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