Tea-rificAustralia

Tea-rific
Australia

Some friends of ours are getting married next month so we’ve been looking around at wedding gifts. Bed linen, cutlery sets, saucepans and a cheese grater- oh how the lists go on. While this wasn’t on their gift registry, my first choice was the tea pot shown above...

It’s the Helena tea pot which is collaboration between Georg Jensen and Helena Rohner. The tea pot is made from stainless steel with a porcelain lid and coaster. The sugar bowl and tea tin are also in stainless steel and porcelain while the milk jug is just stainless steel. The tea pot is $295, tea tin $98, sugar bowl $85 and milk jug $60. Yep, a bit pricey but you can't deny how fantastic the design is and how nicely the stainless and ceramic highlights compliment each other.

-Jenny

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I like the design but I would never spend 300 bucks on something that only boils water.

posted by pocketgnome on July 17th 2008 at 10:21am
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I don't think this boils water, I think it only holds boiled water! But it is beautiful.

posted by missmary on July 17th 2008 at 11:07am
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I'm getting married. I want one!

posted by glojo on July 17th 2008 at 11:09am
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Beautiful. Gorgeous. Sometimes sculptural art is functional. Sometimes the ordinary everyday objects achieve the status of art. Either way, it is a great price. Georg Jensen is an investment that will double and triple down the road.

posted by robertcraig on July 17th 2008 at 1:09pm
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Okay, so that tea pot is pretty. Very pretty. But I'm late in giving gifts to two friends of mine who got married in the past year, and I'm going the "non-practical, but you will love this and it will serve you well" route.

What is it? A strumstick (www.strumstick.com). A beautiful, three string instrument that never sounds bad when you play it. I've had one since college, and occasionally just pick it up and strum away, happy to be making music.

And it doesn't take up precious kitchen space.

I'm a sucker for beauty and functionality.

posted by Nesser on July 17th 2008 at 5:58pm
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