Garrett Leight’s Hollenbeck frame channels Los Angeles spectacle
A new optical design named after John Edward Hollenbeck draws inspiration from the visionary scale and chromatic audacity that defined Los Angeles at its most theatrical. The frame arrives as Garrett Leight pays homage to the city's tradition of thinking monumentally.
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Garrett Leight has named its latest optical frame The Hollenbeck, honouring John Edward Hollenbeck, the Los Angeles philanthropist and civic visionary who helped found Exposition Park in the nineteenth century. The frame emerges from a distinctly Californian sensibility: the impulse to think at monumental scale, to orchestrate colour and geometry with theatrical precision, and to leave a place more luminous than you found it.
The inspiration runs deeper than genealogy. In 1984, designer Deborah Sussman painted Los Angeles in electric blue, vermillion and orange for the Olympic Games, a palette she termed confetti over the city. The Olympic Stadium and its surrounding grounds became a canvas for chromatic ambition, proof that clarity of vision and meticulous detail could transform an entire metropolis. Sussman, herself an Angeleno and longtime Eames office collaborator, understood that spectacle demands both grandeur and rigour.
The Hollenbeck frame carries this duality. Its silhouette speaks to considered proportion and restraint, yet the design philosophy behind it embraces the generous thinking that has always animated Los Angeles, from Hollenbeck’s parks to Sussman’s colour theory to the jetpack that once traversed Exposition Park’s skies. The frame is available in the house’s full range of finishes and lens options, inviting wearers to participate in a particular vision of luxury: not excess, but the elegant confidence that comes from knowing precisely what matters.
Imagery courtesy of Garrett Leight (@garrettleight).
