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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Comments (6)
I like the design but I would never spend 300 bucks on something that only boils water.
I don't think this boils water, I think it only holds boiled water! But it is beautiful.
I'm getting married. I want one!
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.
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.
DO NOT BUY THIS, I own all the pieces to this set. IT IS USELESS AND VERY CHEAP IN PERSON. First off, the tea jar is impossible to get out as the wholes are too small even for my 102lb gf to get her tiny fingers in. Forget any man being able to use it. Secondly, because the seal is so tight the lid flys off when you do finally get it to comeout becuase you cannot grasp it. The sugar bowl has similar problems but not as bad. The teapot is also a joke as the handle makes it impossible to remove the lid without a great deal of struggle and negotiating using two hands. Everytime you take the lid off it scratches the mirror finish because it does not fit out without scraping. The inside rim looks terribly cheap too so the lid is not optional if you want it to look half decent. Secondly the welding on the handle is not pretty at all and the handle is welded on slightly uneven. The bottom is very cheap feeling as well. Overall the quality is the worse I have ever owned at any price. It is completely useless, it almost certainly was created by the retarded fashion types of people that put fashion completely over function. In all honesty I thought it was kind of cheap (BTW the teapot is in the low 200s from gj stores). Using this teapot for tea is about as awkward as the crybaby serena williams walking out on to the court with high heels during the us open.