Tea and Coffee Towers Hong Kong 2008

My last trip to Hong Kong ALESSI had brought in the TEA and COFFEE TOWERS exhibit in the Landmark by The Mandarin in Central.

It was amazing seeing all the prototypes in person.

Alessi's 'tea and coffee towers' project: a new landscape of objects designed by contemporary architects, an exhibition that combines the expression of architecture with the language of design.

The piazza is conceived as a landscaped tray, with vessels for tea, coffee, milk and sugar, nestling in its hollows. The ovals of the four components are formally seen as continuous surfaces that transform from handle to spout. The receptacles are luxuriously made of silver and the presentation platter is composed of an under-layer of dark orange plastic and a top layer of polished silver in which the reflections of the vessels undulate across the surface.

By UNSTUDIOS