Esque Studio will be focused solely on the work of Andi Kovel. Artist, designer, and masterful glassmaker whose work explores glass through the material’s most essential characteristic: its ability to transform.

As founder and creative director of ESQUE Studio, Kovel creates collectible design objects, sculptural works, lighting, and functional pieces that blur the boundaries between art, craft, and design. At the center of her practice is an ongoing investigation into how glass behaves in different states—molten and rigid, fluid and structural, transparent and opaque, controlled and unpredictable.

Rather than using technique simply to perfect a predetermined form, Kovel isolates particular behaviors of the material and exaggerates them. Gravity, elasticity, movement, distortion, surface, color, transparency, and the evidence of making become the subject of the work itself.

Her approach is experimental and intuitive: pushing a process until an unexpected detail becomes the defining characteristic of an object.
In her one-of-a-kind work, these investigations are amplified. Forms stretch, collapse, accumulate, distort, and occasionally approach excess, capturing moments of glass in transition and freezing them into permanent objects. Kovel considers these works material experiments—ways of questioning established ideas of what glass should look like and how it should behave.

That experimentation feeds directly into ESQUE Studio's core collection. Here, the same ideas are distilled into functional and collectible objects for the home. Movement remains visible in a pitcher, vase, vessel, or lamp; an irregularity becomes an intentional design detail; molten glass is allowed to reveal something about its making rather than being forced into form. Function provides structure, but the personality of the material remains intact.