the passion for serap korkmaz´s minimalist design brings the traditional break of turkish tea to a next step: innovation

Are you looking for an object that will make your sophisticated afternoon break, step by step and unforgettable?

Serap Korkmaz has created something that is perfect for you, the Sofia Tea Set.

Serap, a young designer, is originally from a state in which Tea is an indelible part of its culture and has become a true ritual in its geography: Turkey.

The Turkish designer, talented and very young, Serap Korkmaz has reinterpreted, through Contemporary Design, this important tradition, idealizing and creating a great style set.

The Sofia set consists of six thin cups, saucers and teaspoons, a teapot and an elegant wooden tea tray with brass detailing, a material that recalls the same used to enrich the cups and spoons of the white ceramic set.

Thanks to the combination of different colors and materials, the idea of ​​a marriage between two cultures and two different styles in their physical union in an object enclosing a world is better perceived.

The tea time in Turkish tea is a habit of many areas in Turkey: drinking and preparing tea is a custom and service is an iconic object that points to a social experience, a symbol of hospitality.

The reinterpretation, of this element of tradition, aims to point the reflectors on Turkish design and introduces the wealth of tea culture to foreigners.

Sofia Tea Set is thus placed in a balance between tradition and contemporary minimalism.

The initial idea arises from the passion for minimalist design and the desire to keep the Turkish tradition alive through classical lines that combine to form enchanting objects of common and everyday use.

It was the first object created by the designer in the neoclassical collection.

The geometric shapes and the lines decided make the Sofia set simple but refined.

The Sofia set is present in the White Ceramic TID Showroom of brass details, but it is also possible to choose from different colors, such as the black painted ceramic set with silver details or the "total white", a new Entry very impact.

Serap Korkmaz describes his "Sofia tea set," as "an understanding of Eastern and Western culture in a symbolic harmony," probably utopian but reachable in a quiet moment in front of a good tea with a fascinating and evocative set.

Camilla Turchetti -The Interior Design