Sorapot – Final Design
Sorapot has been my biggest project since I learned about the existence of industrial design and switched out of my English major almost four years ago. What you see above is the final design. This is one of the first, done when I knew a lot less about Solidworks:
I stayed with the sheet metal construction for a while, even adding an improbable glass lid:
Sorapot forced me to learn more and more about manufacturing, and its design evolved with my understanding:
Finally, with some great advice from friends and collaborators, I decided on ancient but subtle investment casting (lost wax), and arrived here:
Stay tuned for updates on availability!
10 Comments
November 15th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Thanks for sharing the evolution of your Sorapot design with all your fans. It helps us appreciate the challenge of transforming a pure design into a real solid product. It’s great that you’ve been able to retain Sorapot’s elegant form within the restrictions of the manufacturing process. I’m really looking forward to brewing my first Sorapot-full of tea.
November 18th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Sexiest.Teapot.Ever….
If Apple did housewares, this might be the iPot.
Designer Joey Roth calls his baby the Sorapot. It’s a radically minimalist reinterpretation of the teapot — a vision transforming a familiar, everyday item into something more like modern a…
November 21st, 2007 at 12:35 am
This is a great piece, nicely executed. Can you put the teapot over a flame or is it just for steeping tea??
November 21st, 2007 at 5:25 pm
the most beautiful teapot i’ve seen.
crying out for yorkshire tea….
i cant wait for it to be available,,,,
November 25th, 2007 at 5:03 pm
[...] ___ Bon ça en fait on s’en fiche ! En tout cas, le design est assez sympa et la théière est en quelque sorte démontable. Le site propose même de voir l’évolution du design de cet objet [...]
December 2nd, 2007 at 4:53 am
[...] For anyone that is drinking tea, wants to start drinking tea or for anyone that is even slightly interested in the world of teas, you can jump start your hobby with this new tea pot designed by artist Joey Roth. After almost a full year of constant retooling, Joey Roth has finalized the design and has made the Sorapot available with an initial run of 300 pots. There’s not much else that you can say about the pot except for the fact that its beautiful! It’s something that you can display, converse about and even watch as your tea leaves unfurl in the glass tube. Not ever has tea been brewed this elegantly. Some people are already referring to this pot as the one that would have been if designed by apple. What do you guys think? [...]
December 15th, 2007 at 11:21 pm
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December 18th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Out of curiousity, how did you come up with the name Sorapot?
-From a Sora but not a pot
February 17th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
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May 7th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
[...] JR: It took over two years to find the right manufacturer and refine Sorapot’s design to be more manufacturable and easier to use. You can see some images of Sorapot’s evolution here: Soropot Evolution [...]