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The architecture studio brings its interest in movement, tactility, and human experience to a collection of optical frames.
Heatherwick Studio has designed its first eyewear collection in collaboration with Japanese brand JINS, translating its architectural interest in fluid form into an object made for daily use. Named Liquid, the collection looks to rippling water, air, stone, and molten surfaces, softening the familiar precision of optical frames through rounded contours, subtle asymmetry, and gently irregular lines.
The series includes plastic and titanium frames in Boston and Wellington silhouettes. The plastic versions use layered translucent finishes in colors such as Grey Mist, Amber Stone, Stream Fern, and Obsidian Black, while the titanium models come in polished and brushed finishes that shift with the light. Rather than treating eyewear as a purely technical product, the collection gives classic shapes a more tactile, sculptural quality without pushing them into novelty.
For Heatherwick Studio, known for projects at an urban and architectural scale, the collaboration marks a move toward intimacy. Glasses sit on the face, change expression, and become part of how a person is perceived by others. With Liquid, the studio compresses its ideas about movement, materiality, and human-centered design into a small accessory, turning eyewear into a study of form, identity, and presence.
