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Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot

Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot Water Kettle Teapot by Akira Kikuchi is a winner of the 2024 Silver A' Design Award in Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design.

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Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot Water Kettle Teapot by Akira Kikuchi Silver Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Award Winner 2024

Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot Water Kettle Teapot

This small iron kettle inspired by 1980s design in modern lifestyle with small family, transforming the image of traditional Nambu ironware; this reproduced Swallow Pot has fixed handle drawing straight lines unlike the movable round handle of typical Tetsubin to give completely new impression with added usability. This product preserves anemia-alleviating function of Nambu ironware while preventing rust by the traditional Kamayaki technique. This smaller sized Tetsubin serves both as an iron kettle and a Kyusu teapot, overcoming the limitations of enameled Tesubin teapot in the market.

Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot Water Kettle Teapot by Akira Kikuchi Silver Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Award Winner 2024
Silver Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Award Winner 2024 Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot Water Kettle Teapot
Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot designed by Akira Kikuchi
Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot - Silver Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Award Winner
Akira Kikuchi's Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot Water Kettle Teapot
Silver Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Award Winner 2024 Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot Water Kettle Teapot
Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot designed by Akira Kikuchi
Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot - Silver Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Award Winner
Akira Kikuchi's Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot Water Kettle Teapot

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Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot by Akira Kikuchi

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Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot Water Kettle Teapot

Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparkles amazement and wonderment.


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Akira Kikuchi

Akira Kikuchi

Established in 1848 in Ôshû City, Iwate Prefecture JAPAN, Oitomi began as Hoshodo. Founder Oikawa Rigenta, a tea ceremony kettle craftsman for the Date clan, shaped Oitomi's 170-year legacy rooted in the tea ceremony. Iwate Prefecture's ironware, rooted in Morioka and Ôshû, gained "Nambu Ironware" status. We artisans strive to share the enduring charm of this legacy, passed through generations in our region. As artisans, we prioritize sustainable production to preserve iron's potential—a foundational resource for human civilization since Earth's beginning—for the well-being of future generations.

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Nambu Ironware Studio Oitomi

Nambu Ironware Studio Oitomi

Nambu Ironware Studio Oitomi was founded in 1848 with 170 year of history, originating from the craft making of iron tea kettle used in Japanese tea ceremony. We are group of artisans committed to sustainable product manufacturing based on craftsmanship established in its long history, utilizing traditional cast iron technique with iron as a sustainable natural material, which would contribute toward preserving natural resources and environment for future generations.


Nambu Ironware Swallow Pot Water Kettle Teapot by Akira Kikuchi Silver Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design Award Winner 2024

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