Nouvelle Vague

In the golden age of post-war European eyewear, one phrase echoed quietly through the workshops of the Jura Mountains — Frame France. Discreetly et... [ Continue ]

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Cubitts — KidSuper

For KidSuper’s Paris show, The Boy Who Jumped The Moon, we were asked to turn a sketch into reality — a single doodle of a pair of sunglasses with ... [ Continue ]

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Cubitts — Toogood

Cubitts — Toogood: A collaborative duet that blurs disciplines, bringing fashion, furniture, function and precision spectacle making into satisfyin... [ Continue ]

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New York, 1980s

New York, 1980s: A sunglasses collection inspired by the city of excess, energy, and intrigue. Twenty-five exclusive frames, each named after a hal... [ Continue ]

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Cirrus: The art of iteration

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A moment in Marylebone

Edward Hopper's visions of New York

Edward Hopper lived his entire life in New York and its surrounding areas. It was a place he knew deeply, his work celebrates its distinctive archi... [ Continue ]

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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... [ Continue ]

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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.... [ Continue ]

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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 ... [ Continue ]

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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 ... [ Continue ]

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Spectacle Makers: An interview with Jaimus Tailor

Jaimus Tailor is the founder of Greater Goods, a design and making brand with an ethos of turning ‘nothing into something’. For his spectacle frame... [ Continue ]

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An interview with Nicky Goulder, Founding Chief Executive of Create

For Spectacle Makers, Cubitts worked with nine renowned creatives from a broad spectrum of disciplines, to design one-off spectacles bridging art a... [ Continue ]

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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... [ Continue ]

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Spectacle Makers: an interview with Laxmi Hussain

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Talking bottoms with Wilfrid Wood

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New York in the frame

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Cubitts' first garden tool

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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 ... [ Continue ]

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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... [ Continue ]

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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... [ Continue ]

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A very Cubitts cake

At Cubitts, we hold ourselves to lofty principles of design simplicity. But who doesn’t break the rules on their birthday?