After the metal workshop
The famous 1924 tea infuser was barely eight centimetres tall and remains the heaviest small object in design history: a hemisphere on crossed runners, made by a workshop that believed geometry belonged in daily use, made by hand until industry caught up. This service is a hundred-year echo — raised by hand in Berlin, five pieces, no two runs identical.
The vocabulary is strict: hemispherical bodies, cylindrical handles wrapped in ebony, flat disc lids with a half-sphere for a knop. The teapot's spout is the one drawn curve in the set, and it took more attempts than everything else combined. Geometry is cheap in a sketch and expensive in brass.
Use, not vitrine
A service this deliberate risks retirement into a display cabinet. The antidote is designed in: the brass is left unlacquered so daily handling polishes the high points and shadows the hollows, and the pot pours properly — tested through four hundred cups. Patina is the maintenance schedule. Each set is stamped with its firing date and nothing else.