Kuboraum’s EXO Series: Industrial Architecture for the Face
The Berlin eyewear house deconstructs the frame entirely. Its new EXO Series embraces exposed mechanics, interlocking wireframes and raw hand chiseled finishes to create something that reads as sculptural rebellion.
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Kuboraum has stripped eyewear back to its skeletal bones. The new EXO Series abandons convention entirely, revealing the engineering that usually hides beneath polished surfaces. What emerges is a kind of three dimensional puzzle: interlocking wireframes held together by exposed micro screws and mechanical joints, each element visible, tactile, uncompromising in its honesty.
The retro futuristic aesthetic comes not from nostalgic detail but from function laid bare. The frames exist as negative space as much as solid structure, creating genuine depth that anchors the signature double bridge at the centre. That bridge becomes a point of suspension, a visual pause that gives the whole piece its distinctive presence. The light gold, silver and black matt combinations showcase this architecture to full effect, their reflective surfaces catching and releasing detail as the head moves.
True to the Berlin house’s philosophy, raw hand chiseled finishes turn these into objects with genuine tactility. The surfaces feel worked, considered, made by hands rather than merely engineered. Flash grey lenses add a contemporary cool, their subtle gradient suggesting movement even when still.
The EXO Series is available now at Kuboraum’s Innerraum Galleries in Berlin, Milan, Rome and Mexico City, alongside selected retailers worldwide. Each frame stands as an uncompromising statement of structural transparency, where every screw, every angle, every decision becomes part of the visual conversation.
Imagery courtesy of Kuboraum (@kuboraum).
