About this artwork
Studio Wieki Somers transforms familiar object forms into fantastical devices for storytelling. Profound attention to materials guides this process, which combines traditional and high-tech fabrication methods. The High Tea Pot and Cozy pairs a porcelain imitation of a pig’s skull with a muskrat-fur cozy. Through these objects, the bourgeois ritual of tea confronts the “uncivilized” character of undisguised animal materials. For Wieki Somers, the work is meant to prompt delight and aversion in equal measure, encouraging us to question our relationship to objects.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Architecture and Design
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Artist
- Studio Wieki Somers (Designer)
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Title
- High Tea Pot and Cozy
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Date
- Designed 2003
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Medium
- Porcelain, muskrat fur, stainless steel and leather
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Dimensions
- Skull Pot: 22.9 × 45.8 × 16.6 cm (9 × 18 × 6 1/2 in.); Cozy: 22.9 × 55.9 × 7 cm (9 × 22 × 2 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Funds provided by the Architecture & Design Society
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Reference Number
- 2013.1116
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