Kitchen & Bath Products: Tea for Two

Mark McMenamin -- Interior Design, 9/1/2009

Yauatcha, Alan Yau's London pastry shop and dim sum parlor, has something in common with his seven other international restaurants: distinctive tableware by Bodo Sperlein. Yau now leverages this relationship with Yauatcha Atelier, a brand of home-wares debuting during September's London Design Festival. First out of the fire: Sperlein's 14-piece tea service that pairs rounded forms with twiglike handles. A centuries-old German workshop produces the cup and saucer, mug, and three tea caddies in glazed and unglazed porcelain. The range also includes three more covered porcelain containers, a silver-plated tea infuser and strainers, a cast-iron teapot, and a warming stand. yauatcha-atelier.com. circle 448