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Our history
Fifteen years, told honestly
Including the year we recut every mould we owned, and the eleven months it took to find one room in Kumasi.
2011
One mill, one rented room
Afia Boateng leaves a clinic in Osu and buys a second-hand five-axis mill on credit. The first run is forty frames in three colours, cut in a room behind a printing shop in Spintex.
2013
The first shop, on Oxford Street
Eighteen square metres in Osu, chosen because the rent was survivable and the light was good. It is still open and it is still the shop that sells the most.
2015
Aburi arrives, and does not leave
A soft rectangle cut slightly wider at the temple, drawn for the faces that kept being told imported frames suited them. It has been the best-selling frame every year since.
2017
We start glazing our own lenses
Until now the lens work went out to a lab and came back wrong often enough to matter. An edger, a focimeter and two technicians later, it stops going out.
2019
Kumasi, and the first shop outside Accra
It takes eleven months to find the right room on Harper Road. Adum turns out to be the second-biggest market for progressives in the country.
2021
Everything moves to bio-acetate
It costs about a third more per sheet and takes colour differently, which meant recutting every mould. Ten years of frames, remade, over fourteen months.
2024
Nine shops, and free adjustments for life
The promise is made properly rather than informally: bring any frame we made back to any shop, for as long as you own it, and somebody will straighten it while you wait.
2026
Sixteen products, and no plans for a seventeenth
Fourteen frames and two accessories. Every request for a new shape now gets weighed against dropping an existing one, which is a harder conversation and a better shop.
Years cutting frames in Accra
Shops, from Osu to Takoradi
Frames cut last year
For an eye test, start to finish
What people say
The three things we get told most
I had worn the same frame for nine years because trying on new ones in a shop always felt like an exam. They just let me sit with four of them for an hour.
Esi Ampofo
Bought in Osu
My progressive lenses were wrong twice at another shop. Iris remade them once, free, and then spent twenty minutes explaining what had actually gone wrong the first time.
Kojo Asante
Bought in East Legon
I sat on the Keta in a taxi. Took them back expecting a bill and they straightened them at the counter while I stood there. Still wearing them.
Yaa Owusu
Bought in Kumasi
Try them on before you decide
Nine shops across Ghana, an optometrist in every one, and no pressure to buy anything on the day.
