Designed following the acclaim in the wake of the success of the kettle with bird (9093), this teapot echoes the shape and decoration on the edge, done with the dotting technique. <<Graves'highly personal and easy to recognize formal style blends influences from the european tradition, Art Deco, American "pop", and flashes of pre-Columbian culture. He has shown he can bewitch the public like only very few of the designers with whom i've worked. I think that his success derives from his wholly uninhibited approach to the economic dimension which this activity inevitably entails>>. (Alberto Alessi)