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Joey Roth's Sorapot

by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 12.27.07
Design & Architecture (designers)

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"Designer Joey Roth calls his baby the Sorapot. It’s a radically minimalist reinterpretation of the teapot — a vision transforming a familiar, everyday item into something more like modern art. And, unlike many conventional teapots, the Sorapot’s glass and metal components are fully recyclable."

TreeHugger contributor Joey Roth is so modest; his reinvention of the teapot has been on so many design websites but never on TreeHugger. We are correcting that because it is a complete reinvention of the way a teapot works; It turns it into a show.


Sorapot instructions from Joey Roth on Vimeo.

Joey says "I’ve always been entranced by small, beautiful things that are so detailed, they seem like miniature worlds, yet so ordinary they’re often left unnoticed. I designed Sorapot to emphasize one of my favorite- the unfurling of tea leaves. Sorapot suspends the process of tea making in a glass tube a few centimeters above your tabletop. Unlike standard teapots that confine tealeaves in a small mesh basket, your leaves will have full run of Sorapot’s interior as they unfurl and change the hot water into tea. You might even see a tea-colored shadow cast by sunlight that passes through the tube and comes to rest in a gossamer puddle on your table."

Buy online (limited run of 300) ::from Joey Roth

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Comments (6)

this is beautiful.

jump to top liz [TypeKey Profile Page] says:

Metal teapot? Sounds like you're going to have cold tea pretty soon...

jump to top Anonymous says:

To me, this just seems like another useless reinvention of something that's worked fine for OH the last 1000 years or so.
Not to mention it's quite hideous, to boot.

(why did this make treehugger again?)

jump to top Jef says:

this is a beautiful design; and if you drink your tea, it won't get cold.
The beauty of this teapot is the clear brewing pot, allowing you to see the tea leaves open and turn your plain water into something delightful. If finding beauty in the smallest of details is un-TreeHugger, then, yeah, this doesn't belong here.

jump to top liz [TypeKey Profile Page] says:

I don't think that the cooling problem can be overcome simply by saying "drink your tea". I like my tea good and strong and by the time it has fully brewed I still think it would be too cold for my taste

jump to top LindsayO says:

Beautiful! I love the way you open on end to drop the tea leaves in. Just imagine what else you could make...

sweet tea (sugar!)
coffee (did you know coffee is actually red?)
... and of course an endless variety of teas.

Plus, since it appears to be just big enough for one (two?) cups, you can drink at your leisure and refill for more.

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