# #526 Sophie Lou Jacobsen (Designer) | The subdued architect of the modern American table

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Podcast: [TheBoldWay](https://stenobird.com/podcast/theboldway-329028)
Published: 2026-05-12T03:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://audio.audiomeans.fr/file/nTLjBrCvPC/a3604b14-3eee-446c-a18f-621693c5d680.mp3?_=1777888314
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🎙️ Sponsors du mois🌐 Squarespace — la plateforme no-code, boostée par l’IA, pour créer et développer votre site web tout-en-un.🛡️ MAIF — Épisode Assurance & indépendants : les erreurs qui peuvent vous coûter cher | En partenariat avec la MAIF. — Thanks to Sophie Lou Jacobsen for stopping by TheBoldWay! Sophie Lou Jacobsen is a French-American designer based in New York, founder of the eponymous brand that has become, in just six years, a global reference in contemporary tableware and blown glass. Her pieces, the Ripple Cup, the Wave Pitcher, the Coco Cup are now icons, sold in over a hundred stores worldwide, and copied everywhere from Alibaba to Amazon. For this TBW New York chapter, she tells us how she built her brand without investors, financing her first collection through orders placed at a trade show, why she believes she would never have had this kind of success in France, and how to build a coherent brand universe with integrity, without giving in to the pressure of growth. Timeline 03:10 — Early years — childhood in Seattle in a French household, return to Paris at 16, art foundation course and studies at Central St. Martin's in London 15:00 — Moving to New York in 2015, launching the brand in 2019, the birth of the Ripple Cup and discovering glassblowing with local workshops (Urban Glass, Brooklyn Glass) 22:00 — Milestones of the first six years — becoming an entrepreneur with no business training, the art of delegating (fulfillment, accountant), and the key role of New York's design community 35:30 — The "punk attitude" and building a career outside the classic codes — early lack of confidence, conviction to do things her own way, creative risk-taking 40:00 — New York vs France — no hierarchy of pedigree, a culture of doing, and why her career would nev…

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