“ Juan Navarro Baldeweg has profited by this project to further his research into lights and shadows, projections and surfaces, based on the abstraction of informal calligraphies, laser-cut out o...
“ Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos imagine their slender vase as like the movement of waves in the sea, among which, like drops of denser liquid, float the teapot, coffee pot, sugar bowl, and milk...
“Toyo Ito produced a delicate circular pool of white porcelain, in which the plates, the cups etc. are rested and create virtual concentric rings in the hypothetical water, while small green frog...
“Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa draw in masterly fashion on nature, clustering together, as in a fruit basket, all the pieces of the set, which become apples, pears and silver fruit, an unlikel...
“Dominique Perrault furnishes a modernist and neo-classical response, combining porcelain and silver in each cylindrical object, suiting his project both to the nobility of tradition and to his s...
“MVRDV, like Chang and Denton Corker Marshall, also superimpose the objects instead of juxtaposing them. They concentrate only on the coffee pot, sugar bowl and milk jug, providing a beautifully ...
“Thom Mayne of Morphosis has composed an eloquent mosaic, a kind of fin (the teapot), with the milk jug hooked onto it sculpturally, creating the organic appearance of a noble bird perched lightl...
“Tom Kovac ha via via selezionato da un interminabile sistema continuo di virtuali forme curve derivanti ossessivamente l’una dall’altra, una figura-oggetto teorica ed astratta dove una super...
“ Jean Nouvel presents, as in his Utopian tower for the Biennale, evanescent mirror-finish cylinders of burnished, shimmering metal, gilded on the inside, where the inscription “café café que...
“ Zaha Hadid’s set adds a precise and aristocratic design to the now infinite series of forms large and small, of segments and splinters, exploded and solidified, deriving from the magma of a t...
“ Greg Lynn worked methodically to engineer the transformation and evolution of organic forms to create objects in titanium produced for Alessi in California, using contours juxtaposed to express...
“Future Systems played freely with their stylistic aberrations, their elongated teardrops redolent of science fiction, while virtuously confining the sinuous hallucinations within the constraints...
“Massimiliano Fuksas and Doriana Mandrelli have completed the gesture (sculptural, geometrical and conceptual rather than anthropological) of folding a sheet, as of paper, on itself: a surface no...
“ Dezsö Ekler has combined and juxtaposed the elements of a tea and coffee set, all present in his design, into a single object-image that brings them all together as a synthesis of silver embod...
“ Denton Corker Marshall erected an oblique tower, emerging from a platform (the tray) cut by vigorous yellow segments (the handles of the elements), a conical chimney with the various pieces of ...
“Gary Chang alludes to the vertically stacked bowls forming towers in Hong Kong restaurants, the tiny tea sets used by his old grandfather, to produce a skyscraper tea set, in which each story co...
“David Chipperfield applied his acute ability hit the bull’s eye, getting results in an elegant silver set, deliberately connected with the burgher sensibility of some decades back, but with in...
“Wiel Arets has hibernated forms and functions with parallelepipeds of transparent stiffened gelatin, delicate both to touch and the sense of memory, with a flavor of primordial technicism.” - ...
“ Will Alsop has devised a brilliant, rigid and polychrome stereometric container, richly figured, a box containing a magical beverage for new ceremonies.” - A. Mendini, April 2003 Tea a...
“ My design, amid all the others, is different, the joker in the pack. It seeks to bear witness to an ancient, in fact very ancient, attitude: in our times, characterized by hyper-technological a...
Each of the eleven Tea & Coffee Piazza tea and coffee services is entirely hand-made from 925/1000 silver in a series of 99 examples, together with three craftsman proofs in brass or silvered coppe...
Each of the eleven Tea & Coffee Piazza tea and coffee services is entirely hand-made from 925/1000 silver in a series of 99 examples, together with three craftsman proofs in brass or silvered coppe...
Each of the eleven Tea & Coffee Piazza tea and coffee services is entirely hand-made from 925/1000 silver in a series of 99 examples, together with three craftsman proofs in brass or silvered coppe...
Each of the eleven Tea & Coffee Piazza tea and coffee services is entirely hand-made from 925/1000 silver in a series of 99 examples, together with three craftsman proofs in brass or silvered coppe...
