by Nik + Kort
The Tea for Two Collection
"Tea for Two" is a collection of objects within the world of a surrealist tea party designed for two (or more) people. The collection includes: a giant key fashioned to a handbag, a double spouted teapot sized perfectly to fill a set of two slanted teacups with mutated teaspoons, and a warped deck of cards.
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Tea For Two
A surrealist tea party designed for two (or more)
Each object is designed with the rule of using one twist per object: a shift in scale, a duplication, and a melting.
As a surrealist object collection, we set the stage for a world-build of the same kind. What would it look like to create our own Mad Hatter tea party, where everything is just a little bit off? (The pot has two spouts, the tea cups are just slanted enough to not spill, and the teaspoons have mutated into two).
What would it look like to create our own Mad Hatter tea party, where everything is just a little bit off?
Really big...
Yes it's a handbag. For keeping all of your things, big and small.
or really small?
The Deck of Cards features skewed suits and faces, with a Tea for Two set back design.
Behind the Project
Making The Tea For Two Collection
Who are Nik + Kort?
We’re constantly questioning how to take everyday actions and objects, and make them a more exciting, and shared experience for two people. In everything we do and make together we like to imagine how one thing can multiply into two or more. Similar to the Picnic Collection, there is always a central idea of sharing.
We have since collected many objects that relate to sharing. One of which is the espresso maker for two people by Gemini Express. It has served as an inspiration throughout the ideating and designing of this collection. Like the Gemini Express, our two-spouted teapot is sized perfectly for the two matching teacups, and pours both simultaneously.
We (Nik + Kort) met at a teahouse called Floating Mountain on 72nd Street and Broadway, and we'd always imagined creating objects that tell that story. Sharing tea or coffee is not specific to us, everyone can relate to this specific moment of a slow ritual in sharing.
We called in our friend, Mackenzie Thomas, also an internet artist and writer as our muse for the shoot. Her sense of humor and whimsy is embodied in the images.