Foundry No. 9 · Matte black and steel
Kestrel
Six sides, and the most noticeable frame we make.
From$255
Frame only — lenses and coatings are priced separately.
One of four house collections
Foundry No. 9
Bigger, bolder, and meant to be noticed.
Heavier sections, stronger colour, and shapes with corners in them. A frame is the only thing most people wear every day without choosing it deliberately, and this collection is for the ones who would like to choose it deliberately.
Every Foundry No. 9 frame
Five frames, from $215 to $255 for the frame alone.
Foundry No. 9 · Sand
Loam
Thick, pale, and the widest front in the catalogue.
From$245
Frame only — lenses and coatings are priced separately.
Foundry No. 9 · Tortoiseshell and gunmetal
Marlow
The classic browline, made heavier than the classic.
From$235
Frame only — lenses and coatings are priced separately.
Foundry No. 9 · Gunmetal
Nyle
A double bridge and a dropped lower edge, glazed clear.
From$215
Frame only — lenses and coatings are priced separately.
Foundry No. 9 · Deep teal
Orrin
An Ashford for somebody who is bored of brown.
From$215
Frame only — lenses and coatings are priced separately.
The other collections
Hand-finished acetate, classic shapes.
Verity
Cut from Italian acetate sheet and tumbled for three days until the edges go soft, which is the part that makes an acetate frame feel expensive and is the part nobody can see. Shapes that were correct forty years ago and will be correct in forty more.
Titanium, as little of it as the frame will stand.
Larkspur
For people who want to forget they are wearing anything. Titanium takes a much thinner section than steel at the same strength, so a Larkspur weighs about as much as a letter and does not corrode against skin. It is the collection we fit most often to somebody who has been told they cannot wear metal.
Bigger, bolder, and meant to be noticed.
Foundry No. 9
Heavier sections, stronger colour, and shapes with corners in them. A frame is the only thing most people wear every day without choosing it deliberately, and this collection is for the ones who would like to choose it deliberately.
Children's frames that survive being a child's.
Meridian Small
Flexible nylon that bends a long way before it breaks, rounded edges, spring hinges, and no metal against the skin. Sized properly rather than scaled down from an adult frame, because a frame that sits wrong on a child is a frame whose lens is not in front of the eye, and in a child that matters more than in an adult.
No cart, no checkout, on purpose. This is a catalogue and not a shop. There is nothing to add to a basket and no checkout, because nobody should buy spectacles without a current prescription and a face measurement. Everything here can be looked at on the wall without an appointment.
Interested in Foundry No. 9?
Ring to book an eye examination, or come in and browse the frame room — no appointment needed to look.