Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Home is where your teapots are.
Every other piece of industrial design is a pot or a dish or something insignificant. But when you have a chair, it's like a sculpture of a person: it's alive. It's big. You can't miss it. It's a 'look at me!' item.
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.
Originally I planned on starting a teapot collection. I really like them.
Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands.
But I don't think that sculpture belongs in everyday life like a table does, or like a chair.
The teapot takes in water and gives out tea. So the human individual takes in anything you give him and promptly transforms it; he is ready to give you out again his own reactions - first, in thought and emotion, then in voice or action.
Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical with the desirable.
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