ROKOS

ROKOS is a London studio, based in South Kensington, making glass objects that aestheticise their own use: vases, candleholders and decanters whose behaviour changes when they are handled. Founded in 2012 by designer and artist Jim Rokos, the practice works in borosilicate glass, chosen for its resistance to thermal shock, and produces each piece from design through to making without compromise.

The objects often mirror the drinker, as in the 13° 60° 104° decanter, calibrated to the angles of pouring and awarded a Red Dot, or borrow the behaviour of what they hold, as in the Gauge vase, which won a German Design Award in 2017. Jim Rokos trained as a model-maker for film and television before a master’s in Industrial Design at Central Saint Martins; the studio’s work has appeared in the Financial Times, Wired, Monocle and Icon.