The shape of a glass tells us what we should pour in it. When you’ve got a hankering for a Cosmo, you grab a Martini glass. When you’re drinking bubbly, you use a champagne flute. A wellstocked bar has a whole army of glasses of different heights and shapes, from the stout tumbler to the tall, triangular martini glass.

Alissia Melka-Teichroew, founder of byAMT Studio, playfully challenges these assumptions, literally turning them inside out. The exteriors of her InsideOut glasses are neutral: the trapezoidal form of the archetypical drinking glass. It’s the negative space of the interior that reveals each glass’s intended purpose–especially when filled with liquid. Each is made of hand-blown glass.

The InsideOut glasses are beautiful, fun, and stylish, and boast some practical advantages, too: the double-walled glass provides insulation, keeping beverages cold for much longer than conventional
barware.

About byAMT:

byAMT Studio was founded by Alissia Melka-Teichroew in 2005 (formerly known as AlissiaMT Design), Alissia Melka Teichroew is a New World-Old World mash-up. The daughter of a French mother and American father, she was born and raised in The Netherlands. She is a graduate of Design Academy Eindhoven and holds a Master of Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), USA. After stints in Paris, San Francisco, and Boston, she now lives and works in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn.

While developing her own original projects, she also served a design residency at the renowned design consultancy IDEO and also worked on staff at Puma International. Alissia’s transcontinental background is reflected in her fluidity and fluency of her designs. Attuned to the latest design innovations, trends, and materials, she infuses her work with her own unique, charismatic personality and mischievous sensibility. Her products are savvy, sophisticated, and witty.