Continental Glass Tea Designs - Teapot

“There is always an element of theater in SLJ products, and so when I thought about a Breakfast Collection for my brand I gravitated towards hotel breakfast spreads and British tea,” explains designer Sophie Lou Jacobsen. “I referenced a lot of silver and ceramic teapots which I translated into glass.”

“These pieces are created in the same borosilicate glass that all of the SLJ tableware is made of. The language of the pieces—their curls and intricacies—recall those of more traditional glass or ceramic objects, which is not a common approach when working with this type of glass.”

“Glass is a magical and poetic material. You can achieve pretty much any shape in glass, you can create almost any color. It can be blown, cast, slump, cut, torched. Its transformation from molten state to solid, its duality between strength and vulnerability, all of this achieves a final object that is proud and commands attention, but remains fragile and precious.”