Sunfish

Sunfish

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!!