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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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.
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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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Envy is a green eyed monster
So says Iago in Shakespeare’s Othello. You might misremember the quote as about jealousy, but I tell you now the word you’re looking for is ‘envy’.
An interview with TOAST
Cubitts and TOAST share an interest in items made to be worn infinitely, and repaired for a lifetime. They are creators—or should we say re-creator...
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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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Spectacles for the colour obsessed
The Cubitts Workshop Philosopher was observing the changing light of the sunset and wishing he could capture it in his spectacles.
An interview with Edinburgh Weavers
Scotland’s rich history of textile design is interwoven with our new Cubitts stores. Old Town takes cues from Bernat Klein, a Scottish textile desi...
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An interview with spectacle designer extraordinaire, Max Fosh
As the modern spectacle makers, we’ve always embraced conjunctions of the classic and the new. And our latest collaboration with Max Fosh is just t...
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Cubitts x Henry Moore Institute: Faces and Noses
For this edition of our conversation with Errin Hussey of the Henry Moore Institute we focus on our fascination with the human head and its legacy ...
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Cubitts x Errin Hussey of the Henry Moore Institute: Spectacles in sculpture
For this edition of our conversation with Errin Hussey of the Henry Moore Institute we focus on the depiction of spectacles in sculpture and their ...
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Cubitts x Henry Moore Institute: Tools and Craftsmanship
In the third instalment of our collaboration with the Henry Moore Institute, we’re continuing our conversation with archivist Errin Hussey, this ti...
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The Spectacles Trolley
The second edition of The Spectacle, our bi-annual publication, included a feature on Gerald Summers, the hugely influential yet widely unkno...
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Welcome to the Peepers Show
To mark London Fashion Week, we produced a triptych of one-off, handmade frames by our craftsman in our King's Cross workshop, inspired by So...
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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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The Ganton: Our homage to 1966 Soho
To mark Carnaby’s partnership with the V&A for their exhibition: ‘You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970’, we've pr...
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