LIMITED-EDITION Crate & Barrel November Teapot by Julia Rothman collectors

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Only 200 of these limited-edition teapots were released on November 1, 2013. They are now sold-out.Teapot is brand new, and comes in a beautiful collector's box.🍵 The Story 🍵Often integrating houses, cityscapes and building details into her work, Brooklyn-based illustrator Julia Rothman naturally turned first to historical German architecture as the starting point for her Arzberg teapot design. Drawn to the shapes and patterns on the facades of timber-framed houses popular during the Middle Ages, Julia simultaneously recalled an exhibition of weavings from the Bauhaus school. "I realized that some of the repeating shapes and geometry in those weavings seemed similar to the shapes in the timber houses. I decided to make a design that connected both of those inspirations with the addition of my own personal style."The Arzberg Teapot has been a Crate and Barrel classic since the day we first opened our doors 50 years ago on December 7, 1962. Inspired by the Bauhaus school, its perfectly simple shape was designed in 1931 for the Arzberg porcelain factory in Germany. A young college student by the name of Gordon Segal first bought the teapot as a birthday present for his mother who loved making tea in the afternoon. When he opened the very first Crate and Barrel store in Chicago with his wife, Carole, he bought it again. And again. read more

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