WHEN SHEEL DAVISON-LUNGLEY graduated from optometry school, she applied for a job at E. B. Meyrowitz but was beaten to the post by a classmate. “I'd always wanted to work there,” she recalls. “Everybody in optics knew about E. B. Meyrowitz.” So when Britain's most discerning spectacles maker was put up for sale a little over a decade later, she snapped it up in 1993.
Established in 1875 by Emil Bruno Meyrowitz in what was then Prussia, the business built an enduring reputation not just for its handsome glasses but also for the founder's
