KOBO Seattle | since 1995
$ 64.00
Brew tea with this elegantly simple pot. Porcelain teapot, bamboo handle. 20oz.
Japan
About the designer: Masahiro Mori (1927 - 2005)
Born in Saga, Kyushu (in southern Japan), Mori-san graduated from Tama Art University in Tokyo in 1952 and worked at a ceramics factory in Nagasaki before joining Hakusan Porcelain in Hasami, Nagasaki Prefecture, as a ceramic designer in 1956. Here he applied his philosophy of “The pleasure in design comes from always thinking about and creating utsuwa (tableware) for daily life, which we can share with as many people as possible.”
He received the first-ever Good Design Award awarded by the Japan Design Committee in 1960 for his soy sauce bottle. Since then he has received numerous design awards both domestic and international and was exhibited around the world including the Deutsches Porzellan Museum in Germany and the National Museum of Art in Tokyo.