Set of two tea cups in bone china, with saucers. A distillation of the design achievement of 2003's “Tea & Coffee Towers” project, these cups make the results accessible to the wider coffee-drinking public: the designers of each Alessi limited edition coffee & tea service have been asked to design a simple coffee cup, one that would exhibit the essence of the project.  “I wanted to create cups that could have a great many different variations and I realised that, for my purposes, flowers had the perfect shape. Their shape is exactly what's needed to make a cup; it's the same shape that the ancient Chinese had discovered ... in the universe.” (Dezsö Ekler)