THE MONC BLOG

One of our favourite things about September has to be the London Design festival.

There’s tonnes to explore, but we decided to round up the key events at the top of our ‘must see’ list.

In use since the birth of optics, mineral glass lenses have undergone several hundred years of innovation. It might seem...

From her journey towards becoming a sustainability advisor, to five people dead or alive that she’d invite to her ideal dinner party - we got chatting to Siôbhan Corbin while shooting our new Frame Leith.

If you wear your glasses daily they have the potential to get exposed to a fair bit of wear and tear, but with the right care, you can keep them looking good as new.

Read on for our top four frame care tips.

No matter the craft, here at MONC we feel akin to our peers from across all creative industries. We appreciate their work and gain inspiration and motivation from their stories and creative processes.

So, whenever an opportunity to connect and share ideas arises, we take it.
In the lead-up to releasing our two new wire frames, Bassano & Nørrebro, we got the chance to catch up with our friend and talented musician, Reuben James.

In November of last year, we took a team trip to In Plain Sight, a beautiful exhibition exploring sight and vision at the Welcome Collection in Euston.

Behind a glass case in the exhibition's first room, something caught our attention - a painting of an unknown eye in a bejewelled frame no larger than a 10-pence piece.

We spent years dreaming of our (re)considered retail space and in November last year, after months of hard work, it finally materialised. One year on, and we’re extremely proud to have won Dezeen’s ‘Small Retail Interior of the Year’ award.

To celebrate the launch of our new Limited Edition Chiltern frame, MONC friend and Chiltern Street local Eddies Wailes has put together an area guide of his favourite places on, and around Chiltern Street.

A note from Freddie When we add to our collection, we do it with a plan not to create something...

Glasses can be fragile, there’s no denying that, but they’re not always unrepairable. Repairing the things we own is a fundamental part of reducing our impact on the planet.

We've taken our time to reflect on the IPCC 2021 Climate Change Report that has recently been published.

Explore Grünerløkka, an artsy centre of Oslo, Norway, that inspired our quirky frame Løkka.