a teapot from circles
Marianne Brandt's tea infuser of 1924 is a hemisphere on a cross-shaped foot, with a half-ring handle. three shapes, each doing one job.
lesson 5 · form lab · 5 minutes
the goal
build a teapot from a half circle, a ring and a cross.
the steps
- the body is half a circleplace a large circle and let the base cut it.
- the foot is a crosstwo bars under the body hold it off the table.
- the handle is a ringa small circle at the back, set off the body.
- check the sizesthe three shapes are not the same size, and they should not be.