Late at night, when everyone is sound asleep, Wally Wright’s teapots might start moving.
With twisted handles, sharp edges and soft details, some of those clay objects tower two feet toward the ceiling and look nothing like a teapot.
People see knights, horses, houses and flowers when they look at them — and the list goes on, Wright said.
Instead of a news article per se, today we’ve got a snippet from an essay on design, written by Donald Norman. He’s discusses some of his teapots, each of which are pretty unique, so we thought we’d share that segment with you all:
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I have a collection of teapots. One of them is completely unusable—the handle is on the same side as the spout. It was invented by the French artist Jacques Carelman, who called it a coffeepot: a “coffeepot for masochists.”
By FRANCESCA KEFALAS
Norwich Bulletin
One man’s scrap is Ulric Deojay’s giant teapot.
Family and friends have long known Deojay has a penchant for dotting his Sterling Road home with unusual items, such as a chaise lounge carved of stone, boulders with faces and a pig roaster the size of a two-man submarine.
But now, anyone driving down the road can easily see the creativity of Deojay and his sister Alice Sumner. With the help of friends, the two have created a teapot, more than 20 feet tall, featuring a mural with an eagle and the American flag on it.
Teapots offer uninhibited artwork of tasteful expression to Dixon exhibition.
By Fredric Koeppel
If your knowledge of teapots extends no farther than “I’m a little teapot, short and stout; here is my handle, here is my spout,” then you owe yourself a trip to Dixon Gallery and Gardens to see “The Artful Teapot: 20th Century Expressions from the Kamm Collection.”
The exhibition opens Sunday and runs through Sept. 24.
By Brian Blair
Senior Reporter
Larry Spears’ craft suits people to a tea.
An afternoon tea, perhaps.
His teapots, part of his pottery for some 30 years, highlight creative décor while remaining solidly functional.
So his efforts are simultaneously beautiful and dutiful.
“It started as a hobby,” said Spears, speaking at his studio near Story in Brown County. “And then it turned into something more.”
Two of Spears’ porcelain efforts will be part of the multi-artist teapot show, “Spouting Off,” opening today at Columbus’ Gallery 423.
Tea sets with personal and historical significance go on display at the Peteetneet Academy today for five months.
Jason Olson, Deseret Morning NewsTea sets at the Peteetneet Academy include assorted “fruits.” Six members of the Payson Historical Society — Gwyn Harmer, Helen Walker, JaNay Friedli, Ivan Haskell, Helene Jones and Historical Society President Gloria Barnett — dug into their cupboards and came up with a variety of tea sets that came from ancestors to more modern children’s collectibles.
Afternoon tea is back. Trish Lorenz finds the prettiest china and cakeware so you can enjoy it in style
Forget coffee mornings and cappuccino machines: afternoon tea is back in style, cucumber sandwiches and all.
The fashion for afternoon tea is reputed to have been started by a peckish Duchess of Bedford in 1830. The Victorians made it a great British custom, with wafer-thin sandwiches, platters of cakes and pots of tea accompanied by elegant china.
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