Collection
Pot Variations
DesignerAldo Bakker
We first approached Aldo Bakker in 2019 to design a family of objects for J. HILL’s Standard. We were drawn by the lightness that suffuses all of Aldo’s objects. This quality springs partly from his strong sense of play and humour. Beauty, magic, escape from the world of noise into embodied calm and quietness –these things are fugitive but to the fore in everything he creates. The capture of an early primary gesture led to an exploration of ideas though extended conversation and sketches over the last two years.
This painstaking process, in many ways enabled by extended pandemic lockdown, led to the incubation of a family of forms. From this pool of potential, a handful of pieces came into being. A deliberate openness to possibility in the design stage lead us on a journey of method and material discovery: each piece enacting its identity in various materials – glass both blown and kiln cast, brass, stone and porcelain. This is POT VARIATIONS, a family of things, each bearing its own name and individual characteristics.
This painstaking process, in many ways enabled by extended pandemic lockdown, led to the incubation of a family of forms. From this pool of potential, a handful of pieces came into being. A deliberate openness to possibility in the design stage lead us on a journey of method and material discovery: each piece enacting its identity in various materials – glass both blown and kiln cast, brass, stone and porcelain. This is POT VARIATIONS, a family of things, each bearing its own name and individual characteristics.
Cloud Pipe
An air borne puff of a pipe.The pots accompany you through the ceremonies of the everyday; each one functioning both as a sculptural and a practical object.
Productions: Frans Ottink (Studio Zand) / Borosilocate producer.
Cloud Pipe
From €120
HopStep
The HopStep family come in kiln cast glass, blown glass, porcelain and stone.This piece is the pivotal one. The name comes from the initial sketched gesture that Aldo needed to get out. A bouncing tick. A hop and a step.
The movement gives the piece its life. Making the final piece in cast crystal is complex, each stage, from building the moulds to hand-sculpting the final piece is slow and precise. Figuring it out involved a two-year research process with Richard Whiteley of Corning Studio, into the making of HopStep and Moustache. Richard is an artist and teacher at Corning. His work focuses primarily on cast glass and explores voids as the primary constructive agent. In his words: ‘The works are built from the inside out; voids are ordered first and external structures are built to encapsulate these spaces. The works explore negative space using glass as a substrate’. Future editions will be made at our studio in Ireland as the ultimate goal is the development and transfer of skills.
HopStep - Belge Noir
€4.800
HopStep Family
From €180