Hot Drinks, Hotter Tea Set

Misiak Tea Set and Doilies

Featured item: FEB 28, 2008

You don't even have to love tea to crave these uber-stylish tea sets as home accents. In fact, you don't even need a table to set them on. Can you see them drawing the eye to a bookshelf or even perched on a simple tray on a sofa? We can.

Designer Christine Misiak reincarnates sad and forgotten tea sets into brand-spankin' new adorable (and yet still usable) objets by resurfacing them.

I am a tea drinker with a coffee personality. I love the hard charge of java caffeine, but my stomach doesn't, so green tea has become my mainstay, and now I slurp it up in soy milk lattes like it's some kind of life-giving elixir. (And perhaps it is: green tea does have beneficial, anti-aging and detoxing properties, although in latte form, it doesn't exactly help my pocketbook.) For everyday, my Sigg thermos keeps my lattes toasty and ready-to-drink for hours. But for company, I am bugging out over these recycled, color-poppin' tea sets by Christine Misiak. Somehow this genius of a designer managed to both rescue abandoned tea sets in England (a tarnished yet elegant tea graveyard comes to mind) and bring them back to life as modern, spunky, meta-design pieces. The only drawback to these showstoppers is conversation around the table will come to a standstill as the eyes of would-be hostesses enviously crawl all over these babies. And check out Misiak's amazing rehabilitated bolder-than-thou neon doilies. I'll take a cuppa that, too.

Note: To purchase directly, click here. Tea sets are made to order, take up to six weeks to make, and come in a variety of designs, colors and pieces, including doilies.

http://www.christinemisiak.co.uk/

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