Twenty years of opticianry across three states. The eye behind the curation.
Billy is a third-generation optician — his father ran the family practice in Macon, Georgia, and Billy grew up around the bench. He took the long route in (Carnegie Mellon, then Pittsburgh, then Chicago) before landing in opticianry full-time, drawn to the way the category was beginning to shift away from one-size-fits-all eyewear toward something more like the rest of fashion: independent designers, real materials, frames you'd actually want to wear.
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He spent nine years at Spex Chicago before joining the team at Eyeland Optique, and brings two decades of dispensing experience to the floor. Licensed Dispensing Optician, ABO-certified since 2009. The eye behind the shop's curation.
Billy's pitch to clients: eyewear deserves the same intentional treatment as a good handbag, a good watch, or a good pair of shoes. Try the shape you'd never normally consider — that's usually where the right frame lives.
Nine. Plus a separate sunglasses collection that doesn't count.
Varilux Physio X with Crizal Advance anti-reflective. It's the lens I reach for first for patients who've had trouble adapting to progressives in the past.
Lindberg, probably. Lightweight, long-lived, beautifully engineered. Hard to beat.
Maui Jim. The PolarizedPlus2 color enhancement, the patented polarization, the back-surface AR coating — it's the brand I recommend to every boater, golfer, and tennis player who walks in.
Step outside your normal parameters. Try the shape you'd never normally consider. That's where the right frame usually shows up.
Schedule an appointment online, or call the shop and ask for Billy by name.
