So…way back when, my bestest friend Tiina Carr asked me to design something to celebrate the 10th anniversary of her brilliant Sheffield design agency The Workshop. I did a mini quiz with her team and a bright young chap named Sean popped up with the suggestion that we should make a jelly mould and throw a 10th Birthday Party with jelly&ice cream …so that’s what we did and it was a BLAST!

Then… a bit later, I was chatting with my other bestest friend Natasha Kraal about collaborating with her stellar, stylish Harpers Bazaar Magazine and we came up with the idea of using the jelly mould idea to raise breast cancer awareness in Malaysia (with a bit of a nod to Madonna, Jean Paul Gaultier and Live Aid 1985)!?

The rest turned into a little piece of design history, with support from my friends at Royal Selangor and a cast of international celebrity chefs who all got the joke and contributed their exquisite recipes for our fundraising story. The jelly moulds were made as a limited edition and all got snapped up very quickly but the jelly recipes are published again here so why not give one a whirl … or a ‘wobble’?

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Some say this is my best ever design! Difficult for me to agree of course because that means some of my other favourites have to take second place… not to mention designs that are yet to come!? But the Sunfish teapot is one in which I allow myself a sliver of pride.

Actually, believe it or not, it was one of the quickest ever designs to conceive – literally a ‘back of the fag packet’ sketch made late one night in a New York club after a few too many Margaritas and an encounter with a tropical fish tank (the bar was a huge perspex cube full of the most exquisite fish I had ever seen!).

It wasn’t so quick to develop into a real product though and caused my team in Sheffield a few nightmares in the workshop before the final model eventually appeared in all its sleekness.

A surprising fact: the shape is much more capacious than it looks and holds 1 litre of tea!

An essential virtue: it pours beautifully from the elongated spout and ne’er a drop is spilt!!

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I’ve always loved to travel and taken great interest in the crossover between east and west. For our honeymoon, my wife Ali and I took our first trip to Turkey and brought back an original Turkish bistro coffee pot with a beautifully ornate ‘side’ handle. Some years later, I saw a similar thing in a Paris bistro and the thought dawned upon me to do my very own Bistro coffee pot.

The Bistro is available at: nickmunro.com/collections

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