OPTOMETRIST & CURATED EYEWEAR
MELROSE ARCH · JOHANNESBURG

A gallery for eyewear.

OPTIK curates an international collection of independent and luxury eyewear brands, selected for exceptional craftsmanship, originality and enduring design.

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Lapima Cecília oversized sunglasses with blue gradient lensesJacques Marie Mage frame in oxblood acetate with gold rivetsKuboraum square black acetate mask with tinted lensesTheo two-tone round optical frame in brown and greenAkoni gold titanium frame with gradient tinted lenses
LapimaCecíliaBlue-grey acetate · gradient lenses
Handmade in São Paulo
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01 / The Collection

Fourteen houses. One room.

Every frame is chosen by hand, and many exist in editions of a few hundred worldwide.

ANTWERP

Theo

Antwerp's licence to be playful — bold colour, wit and a refusal to be beige. Theo loves you; the feeling is mutual.

LOS ANGELES

Jacques Marie Mage

Limited editions in Japanese acetate & titanium — numbered, archived, gone when they're gone.

BERLIN

Kuboraum

Frames they call masks — dreamed in Berlin, handmade in Italy. Sculpture to see through.

The collection
The permanent collection — portraits at OPTIK

OPTIK · MELROSE ARCH

02 / The Practice

Measured by hand. Fitted in person.

We are optometrists. Behind the collection is a full practice — a whole hour booked for every eye test and frame selection, unhurried and precise. And some things stay stubbornly physical: the weight of acetate in your hand, titanium settling onto the bridge of your nose, a fit adjusted by human hands until it disappears. That sensory part we never put online.

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By appointment · a whole hour, unhurried.

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