And three, the sexuality. It's passive -aggressive. His focus is the interior. They get obsessed with function, letting it dictate design. Though his teapots are often sculptural, he finds function hard to ignore.
Customers pay a lot of money.
They should be able to use and clean it. Others known for their metal teapots are Susan Ewing, Randy Long, Chunghi Choo, Kee Ho Yuen, Nancy Slagle, Robly Glover, Robert Ferrell and Boris Bally, to name a few. They're not concerned with making the equivalent of Gorham, International or George Jensen. It is a vocabulary that is understood, but they're not competing on that level. It's economics, and the fact that people are living a more casual lifestyle.