Tea pot designed in motivation with sparrow for 5 people

• Design: INSNINE Co., Ltd.
• Materiel: Pine strong, naturally dyed green tea charcoal, catalpa
• Specifications: teacup -Ø70 x 40(mm) (5pcs)
• teastand-Ø75 x 6(mm) (5pcs)
• teapot -Ø130 x 80(mm) (1pc)
• water cooler bowl -Ø100 x 60(mm) (1pc)
• excess water pourer -Ø165 x 70(mm) (1pc)
• naturally dyed cloth wrapper -10pcs
• catalpa box -54 x 36 x 14(mm) (width x length x height)

Increase of modern people's leisure hours has brought plenty of changes to their life style and has formed popularity of well-being, trend such as slow-food. They don't save any investment in more and more diverse hobby lives by customers'desire on intent to improve the quality of life and make mania culture thicker. To match this trend, our main concept is to draw teaculture that used to be thought as difficult to our lives in easy and simple sharing.

2006 Award for excellence named 'Good Design Award'

What was motive to design this masterpiece?

During studying ceramic art and tea, I have realized the fact that our ethnic spiritual culture is melt in tea culture on and off. This kind of value-courtesy and discipline are virtual things that need to be revived in present time. Current car culture is only emphasized on convenience andwell-being effect in commercialism overlooking spiritual side inspired in behavior drinking tea. However, designer should reflect customer's life style and changing consumer's trend. I would like to satisfy artistic point and practicality and to revive our tea culture in present modern people.

How is it different from traditional tea things?

For normal people, it is not easy to keep traditional tea manufacturing and tea drinking method at all times. Present modern people who have a lot of outside activities can not walk around carrying a traditional tea grinder even though they would be tea drinking people pursuing tea drinking ethics. Does Pretty tea set inside car trunk looks so nice? It is importantly different from traditional ones as artwork and a tea grinder, respects and ethics are included offering convenience at the same time and spread out tea culture to popularity. Even if Korean antique clothes named "Han-bok" is innovated, it is so common and well-known that mind-keeping and ethics get different between when people wear the "Han-bok" and when they wear just working clothes.