Turning glass into a small universe.
My name is Atsuko. I was born in Toyota City, Japan, in 1982, and today I live in a small village in the Spanish Pyrenees, where I shape borosilicate glass jewellery at the torch — pendants, rings and earrings inspired by the magic of whales, the rivers of the mountains, and the colours of the night sky.
Every piece is melted by hand from solid rod , tube glass and color rod in a single sitting at the flame, then slow-annealed overnight. There are no moulds and no two are the same. Like nature, where nothing repeats itself either.
What goes into each piece
A piece of the cosmos, sealed in glass.
Borosilicate is the same glass laboratories use because it doesn’t crack from heat. I love it because, under the flame, it flows like water — and once it cools, the light it caught stays in it forever.
Every piece is melted by my own hands in the village studio. Packed in a Sirio box.
The same glass used in laboratories — strong, light, and clear enough to hold a small universe inside.
A long way to the flame
Toyota City
to the Pyrenees.
The road from a childhood of making things in Japan to a workshop in a small village in Huesca was twenty years long. These four moments are the ones I remember most.
1982
- Toyota City · Japan
Born into a household where making things by hand was the most ordinary thing in the world.
2004
- Berkeley · California
First sight of borosilicate jewerly on the street. A complete change of direction of my life.
2006
- Aichi · Japan
Meeting my mentor. Learning the discipline of breath, heat and stillness.
2018
- Zaragoza・Spain
Fell in love with Spanish guy,got married and moved to Spain.
Today
- Huesca · Spanish Pyrenees
A small studio under the mountains, with the rivers and the stars for company.
What I make
