In today’s fast-paced lifestyle, ‘consumerism’ has led to significant waste and expenditure, causing a loss of balance in design. Designers are re-evaluating the essence of design, giving birth to the slow design concept, which has garnered significant attention. The custom of drinking tea has a long history in China, with the concept of tea utensils appearing as early as the Han Dynasty. Tea utensils, emerging alongside the activity of tea drinking, are among the most commonly used household products for modern people. They carry not only a manual craft but also a cultural phenomenon. Topp teapot mixes your tea in a grey bowl, enjoy the perfect tea from Topp teapot!
Fungi & Plank, created by Nendo, is a set of mushroom-like tableware and a tea set with an oversized lid that breaks your perception of tableware! The Japanese studio Nendo designed a set of bowls for a Chinese lifestyle brand that ‘seems to grow from one bowl to another’, along with a set of ‘seemingly unbalanced’ tea utensils hidden under the pot lid. This breaks the traditional shapes and arrangements of tea utensils.
The lids of these containers can be used as saucers to prevent spills when they are filled with hot liquids. Since the lids of all elements are flat, each item can be stacked on top of another for easy storage.
This work is reprinted from the original designer: Nendo [suomu] | Tihu Teapot | A Portable Tea Set That Can Be Carried Away. A good life doesn’t have to be that complicated. The increasingly compact living and working spaces make us rethink the functions and appearance of tea utensils. The Tihu teapot is small enough to be held in one hand, delicate and cute. It is also easy to store without taking up much space. It is a complete set of tea utensils that can be picked up and taken away at any time. The name ‘Tihu’ is a homophone for ‘pelican’, a bird that is born with a container. Wood is considered a reliable, profound, complete and warm material. Clay is a diverse and fascinating material, accompanied by unpredictability and mystery. The materials are taken from nature and integrated into life. From the perspective of material dialogue, the studio designed this Tihu portable tea set. The combination of pottery and wood reveals a natural and refined meaning, bringing personality and a cutting-edge modern aesthetics to the home environment. The Tihu teapot is currently available in two versions: black porcelain paired with sandalwood and white pottery paired with beech wood. The white one is warm and versatile, while the black one is simple and easy to clean, catering to different styles of yours. The Tihu teapot is especially suitable for lazy people to steep tea. Longjing, Pu-erh, small green mandarin oranges, glutinous rice tea… Just place the cup on the teapot and wait for a few minutes to enjoy a good cup of tea. It has a large mouth for fast heat dissipation and the tea won’t scald your mouth when you drink it. The Tihu teapot includes a ceramic teapot and a ceramic teacup. High-quality porcelain clay from Jingdezhen is combined with solid raw ore clay to form a unique warm and simple touch. It is equipped with a solid wood bent wood process handle, made of dense beech wood and sandalwood, and hand-polished. The outer surface is coated with three layers of food-grade wood wax oil, so it is not afraid of bumps and stains. Finally, it is permanently fixed with 304 stainless steel butt rivets. The wooden handle can rotate freely. You can not only move them comfortably as a whole, but also heat the tea with an alcohol lamp or a heating base without worrying about material cracking. The detailed design is derived from daily experiences: 1. Solve the problem of hot hands: It is equipped with a delicate wooden handle, which solves the problem of hot hands caused by the direct contact between the tea utensils and hands even when traditional fast guest cups only use heat insulation parts. 2. Fast water discharge: Ten water discharge holes are of appropriate size. The tea soup can be separated from the tea leaves, and the water discharge is fast and smooth. 3. All-natural materials: The ceramic part uses a mixture of porcelain clay and raw ore clay as raw materials. The outer surface is finely polished, and the inner part is a food-grade lead-free transparent glaze, which is easier to clean. The wooden handle part is made of pure beech wood/sandalwood solid wood, hand-chamfered and polished with wood wax oil. The whole product is made of natural materials, with porcelain and wood echoing each other, pure and natural.Enjoy a leisurely life with tea at home. Meticulously crafted by hand, these tea sets represent a natural approach to production, bringing back the essence of our earliest lifestyles.
For more information, please visit their official website **www.suomudesign.com** or their Taobao shop suomu. The copyright of this work is owned by suomu, and it is prohibited to republish anonymously or for personal use. Any commercial use requires contacting the original creator. This teapot design by Ane Otterlei and Pia Sofie Sollund is inspired by the tea traditions of Japan and Norway. It features an oval and spherical body that evokes a sense of softness, while the rectangular handle provides a contrasting feel in shape and direction. The lid is made from Guatemalan marble, perfectly fitting into the concave space on the spherical object. The body of the teapot is crafted from porcelain, the rectangular handle from brushed steel, and the handle from wood. This work is reprinted from the original designers: Ane Otterlei, Pia Sofie Sollund. Altar: Ceramic Tea Set Design – Inspired by Japanese Culture! The Altar is a ceramic tea set that celebrates different types of solitude – the thoughtful and peaceful loneliness that comes with a cup of tea. It encourages meditation and deep self-reflection, delving into one’s own self.
