Sabae, Japan — Est. 2015

Twelve shapes nothing borrowed.

An independent house working out of Sabae. Every silhouette drawn from nothing, cut and finished by hand, released in runs that end.

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The Collection

Twelve silhouettes
SignatureThe Sully

The Sully

Brown / Light Blue Translation missing: en.products.product.from $335 USD
5 of 5 available
The Tom

The Tom

Amber / Aqua Translation missing: en.products.product.from $275 USD
16 of 16 available
The Five-O

The Five-O

Havana / Green Translation missing: en.products.product.from $315 USD
8 of 8 available
The 008

The 008

Havana / Green Translation missing: en.products.product.from $275 USD
12 of 12 available
NewThe Zid

The Zid

Brown / Green Translation missing: en.products.product.from $280 USD
17 of 17 available
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The Millimetre

Where the price lives
The Hinge
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The Hinge

Milled from a single piece of pure titanium and set by hand. No screws to loosen, no play to develop. It should close the same way in year five as it did on the first day.

The Acetate
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The Acetate

Japanese cellulose acetate, cured in sheet for months before it is ever cut. The depth in a Havana or a Marble is not printed on — it runs all the way through.

The Curve
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The Curve

Every silhouette is drawn, cut, worn, and drawn again. A frame leaves the bench only when the line reads correctly from three-quarter view — the angle nobody photographs and everybody sees.

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Sabae

Nine in ten Japanese frames come from one valley.

Sabae, in Fukui Prefecture, has been shaping eyewear since 1905. The workshops there hold tolerances measured in tenths of a millimetre, and they will not take on work they cannot finish properly. That is the entire reason we are there.

We hold no licences and answer to no committee. Each silhouette is released in a run that ends — when a colorway is gone, it is generally gone.

OriginSabae, Fukui, Japan
FramePure titanium / Cellulose acetate
Lens100% UVA-UVB · Anti-reflective
ProductionRuns that end
Founded2015
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Shapes bold enough to be remembered, made quietly enough to last.
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New colorways go out here first

We work in small runs. When a new colorway, a collaboration or an archive re-issue comes off the bench, the list sees it before the shop page does.

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