The Heritage Exchange started with a comparison. A budget frame on a British high street is a compromise you're expected to feel. Thin acetate, lazy hinges, a design chosen by a committee that has never met you.

A budget frame from Sabae workshops is hand-finished titanium made by people who have been doing it for sixty years. Choose to spend more and you're not buying your way out of a compromise. You're buying more craft, more material, more of what you loved in the first place

We bring those frames to British opticians who'd rather sell something they believe in.

The company works with a deliberately small number of makers, visits them in person, and buys in quantities that suit an independent practice rather than a chain.