What is SICKY? SICKY is a luxury eyewear designed in Malibu, crafted in Japan and founded by John Hildebrand.  SICKY is more than the carefully placed metal logo on the temple of the frames but unites a crew of fearless creators who are changing the way we see the world.  Meet John Hildebrand whose fearless entrepreneurial […]

It’s easy to romanticize what it means to be an artist.  The mind’s eye produces a lone, backlit figure brooding in an industrial warehouse, lost in a euphoric trance of creative clarity, with only his genius, paints and palette to keep him company.  But nothing creative is ever that simple– or glamorous. Rarely do we […]

Longtime optician and owner of Gentlemen’s Breakfast Van de la Plante shares a few of his rare and coveted frames. Our Collect department is not just limited to art but features collections of all types.  You, the optically-savy Installation reader can collect the frames that you will encounter in our digital pages and can become […]