The Teapot, Reinvented

Most teapots are big and bulky and fit so awkwardly for your cabinet, you are resigned to only leaving them on the counter. Paul Loebach‘s Ora Teapot, then again, seems like one thing you may find in a chemistry lab. a sublime cylinder of double-walled glass, it is compact enough for easy storage—but in addition so pretty, you’ll be able to in truth want to go away it out.

The design wasn’t Loebach’s unique imaginative and prescient. He’d had an urge to replace the in style teapot, from what he calls its conventional “grandma” design into something that could be saved properly in a cabinet. After months getting to know ceramic mixes and deal with shapes, he eventually perfected his thought. sadly, no person needed to make it. “somebody said it wasn’t cute sufficient,” he told Co.Design.

quickly after, he was once approached by means of design fetishists Kikkerland, who requested if he’d thought to be making it in glass. Loebach was struck by an concept that would develop into the Ora Teapot: a pitcher cylinder with a cork for a lid impressed by way of his love of glass science equipment. “when I was once first introduced with this idea of using glass, I started looking at laboratory glass, which is made from the same subject matter because the teapot,” he says. “Even just the technical means the spout goes in is electrified by using scientific glassware,” he says. “I all the time roughly wished kitchen merchandise looked extra like laboratory stuff, there is one thing clean and heavy accountability about it. It feels devoted.”

Importantly, the design does no longer have a handle. “I had spent three months fascinated about handles, then this design just got here in five minutes, really quick and simple,” Loebach says. A teapot with out a handle would possibly seem downright foolish. but Loebach tells us the entire thing can also be picked up with out grabbing a towel or oven mitt. “Double-walled glass is perfect for this because it retains it heat within and it does not really feel sizzling on the surface,” he says. instead, when in use, the outside of the glass warms to a cozy “human temperature,” while protecting palms from the boiling water inside of.

The Ora Teapot is available online at Kikkerland for $45. Matching teacups cost $30 for a collection of two.