Focus Optician

The eyewear boutique at 1330 Wisconsin Avenue NW carries the category of frames that the large optical chains do not stock and that the department store eyewear counters carry in limited selection: the luxury fashion house eyewear lines, in the full range of styles and colorways that the season produces, fitted by an optician with the prescription accuracy that a high-quality frame deserves. Focus Optician is a specialist address on a stretch of Wisconsin Avenue that has developed a cluster of service businesses oriented toward the Georgetown professional consumer’s specific requirements.

The frame selection at Focus Optician represents the luxury tier of fashion eyewear. Cartier’s eyewear line, which extends the jewelry house’s gold and platinum aesthetic into frame construction, is available here in styles that range from the classic Cartier frameless to the more contemporary wrapped silhouettes the house designs each season. Chanel frames carry the same visual language as the fashion house’s clothing: the quilted pattern, the interlocking C, the black-and-white color story that Gabrielle Chanel established as the house’s signature. Dior, Gucci, Tom Ford, YSL, and FRED complete a frame selection that covers most of what the luxury fashion house eyewear market produces.

The prescription lens service is where the optician function operates. A high-quality frame at a luxury price point is a poor investment if the lens work is not done well, and Focus Optician provides the prescription accuracy and lens options that the frame quality requires. Single vision, progressive, invisible bifocal, and computer lens formats are available, which covers the range of vision correction needs that the Georgetown professional population brings to an eyewear appointment. The fitting and adjustment work that follows the lens completion is the optician’s craft skill, and a well-fitted frame produces comfort and optical performance that a poorly adjusted one cannot deliver regardless of lens quality.

Sunglasses in the same luxury frame selection are available for customers who want prescription sunglasses or non-prescription fashion sunglasses in the designer formats. The Georgetown professional who wants a daily driver pair of sunglasses in a Cartier or Tom Ford frame alongside their reading glasses is the natural customer for the Focus Optician range.

Wisconsin Avenue at 1330 puts the boutique on the block between N Street and O Street, in the stretch of Wisconsin that has developed as a destination for service businesses oriented toward the neighborhood’s residents rather than tourist foot traffic. The hour structure, with the boutique open from 11am Monday through Saturday and noon Sunday, is oriented toward the customer who arrives after the commute rather than the early shopper.

The phone is (202) 337-8969 and the website at focusoptician.com provides contact information. For customers with existing prescriptions, bringing the prescription document to the appointment allows the lens selection conversation to happen at the same visit as the frame selection.