Bespoke Frames

Some brands think spectacles are an off-the-peg, high-street homogeneity. Let the generic characters shop there. You? You’re different. 

Bespoke at Cubitts is where the idea of a “pair of glasses” becomes something more deliberate – an object designed from scratch around you, your face, and your life. There is no starting silhouette, no reference size, no standard bridge or predefined temple. Instead there is a conversation, a blank page, and the quiet intention to make something that could not sensibly exist for anyone else.

It begins, as with Made to Measure, with understanding your face. Our patent pending scan captures every contour to sub millimetre precision, creating a permanent digital last of your head. But for Bespoke, that scan is not only a fitting tool, it is a design canvas. We study the angles of your brow, the spacing of your eyes, the asymmetries that make your face human and interesting. We look at how you hold yourself, how you dress, what you do for work, how you move through your day. Are these spectacles for the studio, the operating theatre, the stage, the workshop, or for reading in bed at midnight? The answers shape the frame as much as the measurements do.
From there, the design process unfolds in stages. We sketch, model, and iterate, exploring different constructions and characters. You might arrive with a much loved vintage frame that can no longer be repaired, an old photograph of a grandparent, or a very specific vision in your head. You might have never found a frame that quite works, because of a low bridge, a narrow crest, prominent cheekbones, or strong prescription lenses. Bespoke allows us to resolve all of this. We can manipulate thickness to hide lens edge, alter the depth and angle of the frame to clear your cheeks, engineer bridges for almost any nose shape, and bring in design details that are meaningful to you, from a particular joint to a borrowed architectural line.

Material and colour become part of this conversation rather than a final flourish. We might choose a dense, high definition acetate for sharp, graphic lines, or a softer translucent that allows the structure to glow rather than shout. We can work with combinations of materials, integrate custom pins, or specify unusual lens tints and treatments. The palette extends across hundreds of acetates and finishes, but we are always guided by how the frame will live on your face and in your wardrobe, not just how it appears on a table.
Once the design is agreed, the frame moves into prototyping and making. Depending on the complexity, we may produce interim samples – simple “proof” frames or 3D printed mock ups – so that we can refine details in three dimensions before committing to the final construction. When we do, your frame is made through a sequence of hand and machine processes that mirror traditional spectacle making, from cutting and routing to filing, tumbling, and hand polishing. Pins are set, hinges fitted, edges softened, surfaces worked until they feel calm to the touch. ZEISS lenses are then made to your prescription and glazed into the frame, ensuring that the optical performance matches the ambition of the design.
At the end of this process you do not simply receive a pair of spectacles; you receive a record of a design journey. The finished frame carries your measurements, your preferences, and your story encoded in its proportions. It rests on your nose and ears in a way that feels oddly inevitable, as though it were always meant to be there. That is the aim of Bespoke at Cubitts – to take an everyday object and, through attention, engineering, and a little imagination, turn it into something that could not possibly be off the shelf.

At the end of this process you do not simply receive a pair of spectacles; you receive a record of a design journey. The finished frame carries your measurements, your preferences, and your story encoded in its proportions. It rests on your nose and ears in a way that feels oddly inevitable, as though it were always meant to be there. That is the aim of Bespoke at Cubitts – to take an everyday object and, through attention, engineering, and a little imagination, turn it into something that could not possibly be off the shelf.