Each of these porcelain teapots by Memphis group designer George Sowden has a steel basket filter with over 160,000 tiny holes to improve the taste of tea (+ slideshow). More about George Sowden designs Softbrew Teapots to alleviate "lousy" tea bags
Bjarke Ingel's architecture studio BIG has decorated a set of porcelain tableware with outlines of city skylines from around the world (+ slideshow). More about Bjarke Ingels draws city outlines around porcelain tableware
Milan 2014: Dutch designers Laura Lynn Jansen and Thomas Vailly have created a collection of tableware by "growing" stone over a structural skeleton using the same natural process that forms stalagmites and stalactites in caves (+ slideshow). More about Laura Lynn Jansen and Thomas Vailly "grow" stone tableware
London designer Benjamin Hubert has created a range of moulded ceramic tableware for Italian manufacturer Bitossi Ceramiche that celebrates raw seam details created in the casting process. More about Benjamin Hubert plays with slip-casting process to create seamed ceramic tableware
Milan 2014: design collective Something Good launched its second Italian-made collection of home and office accessories in Milan earlier this month, with pieces by Odoardo Fioravanti, Oscar Diaz and Tomas Kral (+ slideshow). More about Something Good produces accessories collection in Italy
Milan 2014: Dutch designer Aldo Bakker has created sculptural stainless steel tableware products for Danish metalware brand Georg Jensen. More about Aldo Bakker designs sculptural stainless steel tableware for Georg Jensen
Milan 2014: Spanish designer Jaime Hayón has created a tableware collection of vessels with metal stands that reference the pottery and architecture of ancient Rome. More about Roman artefacts influence tableware designs by Jaime Hayón
Milan 2014: designers Luca Nichetto and Lera Moiseeva collaborated to create a ceramic tableware collection to accompany a porcelain coffee set, for an exhibition at Spazio Rossana Orlandi. More about Luca Nichetto and Lera Moiseeva create ceramic tableware for shared meals
Milan 2014: Dutch studio Scholten & Baijings has designed a series of marble tables decorated with engraved geometric patterns that contrast with the natural veined surface of the stone. More about Scholten & Baijings carves geometric patterns into marble table collection
Milan 2014: Japanese designer Jun Murakoshi's tableware features patterned thread tops that create a geometric lattice for supporting flowers. More about Thread patterns cover blown-glass tableware by Jun Murakoshi
Milan 2014: design duo Formafantasma is presenting a collection of engraved drinking glasses that form new patterns when stacked together, at an exhibition curated by Rossana Orlandi in Milan More about Formafantasma shows engraved glassware at Bagatti Valsecchi in Milan
Milan 2014: London designer Lee Broom will launch these glass and marble vessels during a dinner party in the window of a Milanese design boutique next week. More about On the Rock vessels by Lee Broom to launch at Milan dinner party
Milan 2014: British designer Bethan Gray will exhibit a set of monochrome marble tableware in Milan next month. More about Monochrome marble tableware designed by Bethan Gray
Rotterdam designer David Derksen has decorated a set of plates by employing the oscillations of a pendulum to drip patterns of paint (+ movie). More about Patterned plates decorated using a pendulum
These plates and dishes made of cellulose by Swedish design studio Tomorrow Machine have a special self-cleaning coating that means they never need washing up. More about Cellulose tableware that never needs washing up
News: double-ended teaspoons commissioned as part of the recent renovation of Tate Britain's cafe have been so popular with visitors to the London gallery that they've been taking them home. More about Double-ended teaspoons by Nicole Wermers stolen from Tate Britain cafe
Israeli designer Shira Keret used a water jet cutter to erode marble blocks into these plates and vessels. More about Monolith eroded marble tableware by Shira Keret
Mexican designer Liliana Ovalle has created a carafe and set of tumblers printed with fine black lines that overlap to create a moiré effect when the pieces are clustered together. More about Cumulo by Liliana Ovalle
Product news: Japanese design studio Nendo has launched a range of cutlery that looks as though it's been carved from flint like prehistoric tools. More about Sekki cutlery by Nendo
Product news: Japanese studio Nendo has created a range of porcelain with patterns that play on archival designs from a traditional Japanese pottery. More about Ume-play and Karakusa-play ceramics by Nendo