Pot Variations is a family of sculptural vessels conceived by Aldo Bakker and realized by J. Hill’s Standard in partnership with master makers across disciplines. Envisioned through a singular intuitive gesture and refined through ongoing dialogue, each form carries Bakker’s unmistakable sense of poise, quiet tension, and emotional precision.

Defined by subtle but deliberate shifts of volume—leaning, swelling, tapering—the pieces resist easy categorization. Some feel anchored, others seem to hover; each has its own personality, its own gravitational pull. Rather than beginning with function, Bakker begins with feeling: a moment of pause, lightness, or escape translated into object form.

To bring these forms into the world, Pot Variations are realized across a spectrum of materials: blown and kiln-cast glass, brass, porcelain, and stone. Each material reveals a different facet of the gesture that initiated it, highlighting process, possibility, and the designer’s devotion to form above all else.

The Pot Variations Family comprises a constellation of individual pieces, each bearing its own name and characteristics yet united by their shared sensibility. They move with you through the quiet ceremonies of the everyday—objects that are at once sculptural and practical, companions rather than tools, each offering its own small invitation to stillness.