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.
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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Spectacle Makers: An interview with Yinka Ilori
Yinka Ilori is a British-Nigerian multidisciplinary artist and designer and—now—Spectacle Maker. His frame for London Design Festival draws on his ...
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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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New York in the frame
Seven one-off spectacle frames designed with an admiration for New York’s places and faces. From the Mudd Club to Studio 54, the Flatiron to the...
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Cubitts' first garden tool
We've collaborated with Niwaki, makers of fine Japanese tools, to produce a spectacle frame designed to withstand the rigours of the garden. To cel...
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Nothing new under the sun
The Inuit people, indigenous to the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, and Alaska, have long faced some of the harshest environmental conditions ...
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Recreating a military frame
The 1970s were a transformative period for the U.S, marked by technological advancements. Among these innovations was the introduction of the S9 mi...
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London and a history of spectacle making
London is a city steeped in the history of spectacle design. From the earliest pair of spectacles ever discovered – the 15th century ‘Trig Lane’ bo...
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An interview with David Usborne
Cubitts' first exhibition, The Emotional Utilitarian, is composed of objects collected by David Usborne, a magpie for the beautifully functional. W...
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A blind date with Bespoke+
The first of two bespoke frames for mystery customers, designed purely in response to their character.
Cubitts x Edinburgh College of Art
The jewellery students at Edinburgh College of Art have taken on that most noble art of spectacle design, with a brief to create a frame inspired b...
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Architectural Incongruities
London’s streets are home to many strange conjunctions of old and new. Every corner turned might lead to fresh juxtaposition. The city folding in u...
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