Roxanne Flick bases ceramic tea set on the shape of flamingos
Graduate shows 2016: Pforzheim University graduate Roxanne Flick has created a porcelain tea set that resembles the long necks and bodies of flamingoes. More
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Marc Newson designs £82,000 silver tea set with mammoth-ivory handles for Georg Jensen
Industrial designer Marc Newson has created a limited-edition silver tea service for Danish metalware brand Georg Jensen, which features handles made from mammoth tusks. More
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GAAGA uses prefabricated wooden walls to build "three-legged" tea house in a Dutch park
Dutch architecture studio GAAGA has completed a three-winged wooden tea house in Leiden, the Netherlands, featuring large windows on all sides to allow panoramic views of the surrounding park (+ slideshow). More
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Arch Studio transforms Beijing hutong into tea house with curving glass courtyards
Curving glass walls enclose bamboo-planted courtyards in this tea house, which occupies a formerly derelict building complex in one Beijing's ancient neighbourhoods (+ slideshow). More
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Kengo Kuma replaces the walls of a Beijing tea house with a grid of translucent blocks
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has arranged translucent plastic blocks in a brick-like formation to create new walls for a Beijing tea house overlooking the Forbidden City (+ slideshow). More
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Paul Loebach creates tea set with laboratory glass
Brooklyn designer Paul Loebach has used simple forms and materials for a teapot and matching glasses to provide an alternative to the "grandma look" of some ceramic designs (+ slideshow). More
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New Pinterest board: tea houses
Our latest Pinterest board is filled with tea houses by architects and designers including Shigeru Ban, Sou Fujimoto and Tokujin Yoshioka.
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Tokujin Yoshioka installs glass tea house beside an ancient Japanese temple
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka has built a transparent glass tea house beside a historic Buddhist temple in Kyoto, Japan (+ slideshow). More
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Hiroshi Sugimoto's glass cube hosts Japanese tea ceremonies in Venice
Venice Architecture Biennale 2014: traditional Japanese tea ceremonies were staged inside a glass tea house designed by Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto at this year's biennale. More
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Hlutagerðin recreates ancient Icelandic armour for tea cosy and tablet case
Icelandic studio Hlutagerðin has designed this leather and lambskin armour to keep teapots warm and protect tablets from coffee table scrapes (+ slideshow). More
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George Sowden designs Softbrew Teapots to alleviate "lousy" tea bags
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
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Hiroyuki Ogawa patterns Japanese tea house with subtle cherry blossom motif
A faint pattern of cherry blossom petals decorates window screens and furniture inside this tea house in Japan by Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects. More
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Red-Wall Teahouse by CutscapeArchitecture flanks Beijing's Forbidden City
Beijing's Forbidden City is the backdrop for this tea house created by Chinese studio CutscapeArchitecture in place of two dilapidated warehouses (+ slideshow). More
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Huge glowing letters lead inside El Té tea house by Estudio 30 51
Large glowing letters spell out the
Portuguese Spanish word for tea at the front of this tea house in Brazil by architects Estudio 30 51, the third cafe we've featured in the last seven days (+ slideshow). More -
Straw and plaster-lined cafe by A1 Architects based on Japanese tea houses
Czech studio A1 Architects covered the walls of this cafe in Prague with a tactile mixture of black plaster, coal and pieces of straw, in a modern take on the clay plasters used inside traditional Japanese tea houses (+ slideshow). More
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Form Tea Set made of brass by Tom Dixon
British designer Tom Dixon has launched a tea set made of spun brass. More
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Tea with Georg by Scholten & Baijings for Georg Jensen
Milan 2013:Â this silver serving set for tea and cake was designed by Dutch studio Scholten & Baijings for Danish silverware and jewellery company Georg Jensen and launched at Spazio Rossana Orlandi last week. More
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Droog copies China
News: Dutch design collective Droog will turn the notion of piracy in China on its head by unveiling its own copies of Chinese objects in a Guangzhou shopping centre next week. More
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Bamboo Courtyard Teahouse by HWCD Associates
More bamboo: this floating tea house in Yangzhou, by Chinese architects HWCD Associates, features brick rooms linked by louvred bamboo corridors and brises soleil. More
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Silent Machine by Eunjae Lee
The forms of this tea service by design graduate Eunjae Lee are based on the components of an engine. More
