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Tea-time tea steeper by Pengtao Yu

toma — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 18:03:09 +0000

Designer Pengtao Yu about project:

This hourglass shaped tea steeper consists of two double wall cups and a mechanical timer in the middle. It controls the steeping time precisely and makes the tea drinking easy and fun.

Tea diver by Abel design

toma — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 22:05:49 +0000

This cute teatime friend is called ‘Tea Diver’ and is designed in the shape of a deep sea diver. Tea Diver is composed of a body part, a belt part and an oxygen tank part and comes in 4 different colors (metal, blue, orange,lime). It is safe to be used in hot water as the material used for the product is food grade silicone which is heat resistant and is harmless to health. Reminiscent of a deep sea diver diving into the cup, Tea Diver will help your tea time be more interesting and enjoyable.

Abel design | Seoul, Korea

Teacup by Laura Bougdanos and Vesa Jääskö

toma — Sat, 07 Dec 2013 11:36:20 +0000

Do you want a perfect cup of tea? We do. The Magisso Teacup makes enjoying tea nice and simple. Thanks to the triangle bottom, it is easy to adjust the strength of tea depending on your taste without making a mess. This is how you do it: Just tilt the Magisso Teacup so that the strainer side of the cup is lower. Then place tea leaves into the strainer, pour hot water until leaves are covered and let it steep for a while. By tilting the Magisso Teacup the other way, tea doesn’t get any stronger. Now tea is ready to be enjoyed while leaves in the strainer spread their natural fragrance.

Designers Laura Bougdanos & Vesa Jääskö| Magisso | Helsinki, Finland

Intersection Coffee Table by Thomas Merlin

toma — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 07:53:04 +0000

Designer Thomas Merlin about project: “The concept comes from the idea of connection between the two elements which make up a table: the table top on the one hand, and the table leg on the other hand. The particular drawing of the table allows to fix these 2 elements by using a crossbar, which also serves as a carrying handle. This makes the small table easy to move in the house.

The table is easy to take apart. It is composed of 2 identical metal sheets, 3 oak crossbars and and 4 identical oak table legs. When disassembled, the whole does not exceed a bigger volume than 50 x 35 x 8 cm. Relations between flatness and volume, the inside and the outside, mobility and stability are some of the ideas crossing in this table.”

Thomas Merlin | Crest, France

Pouring Light by Yeongwoo Kim

toma — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:30:16 +0000

This specially designed Pouring Light lamp’s concept motive is to give off emotional flow of light. The special feature of Pouring Light is the shape of flow water is the base. The pouring part of water is phosphorescence. When you turn off the light, it gives off warm dim light for right ambience and easy to fall asleep.
It conserves energy by using LED light.

Nota mug by Lee Hae Seung. Scott

toma — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:44:44 +0000

‘넣다’(Neohta) means, put in/ into, insert, slot etc, ‘놓다’(Nohta) means, lay, put, place, set etc in Korean.
This design provides a new experience for the user in that the mug itself holds on to the spoon while the user drinks his ‘teh’ (tea) or ‘kopi’ (coffee) from a cup/ mug with no saucer. When I had my first meal at a hawker centre, I realized that many people around me drink kopi or teh while holding the spoon with the cup and stir making ‘clang, clang’ sounds. They do not have any saucer to put their spoon on and the table is not sanitized. The user simply put his tea spoon in the cup, let it lay naturally while they drink. The NOTA mug is designed to prevent the spoon from moving around in the cup and irritating the user; hopefully it becomes a ‘notable’ cup, different from others.

Lee Hae Seung. Scott | Seoul Korea

Tèo teaspoon by Karin Santorso

toma — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:38:43 +0000

A simple innovation for a teaspoon keeps fingers dry when making tea. Tèo – new teaspoon designed by Austrian designer Karin Santorso for Alessi, takes a more dignified approach to tea bag management with a handsome, sculptural solution that takes care of the tea bag for you. The design itself was inspired by the shape of a curled leaf.

Karin Santorso | Alessi | Sierning, Austria