Summary:
- KPM Berlin and Berlin studio Sucuk und Bratwurst have released SporTea, a porcelain teapot shaped like a kettlebell, limited to 100 pieces per color.
- Each piece is hand-sprayed in blue or orange, finished with a platinum handle, and embossed with "8 KG" on the side.
- The teapot is priced at €600 and available from June 11, 2026, in KPM Berlin stores and online.
Two Berlin names with little in common on the surface have produced an object worth paying attention to. KPM Berlin, the Royal Porcelain Manufactory with over 260 years of history, and Sucuk und Bratwurst, a Berlin creative studio known for its take on design and pop culture, have collaborated on SporTea: the Kettlebell Teapot. The result is a porcelain teapot built in the exact silhouette of a kettlebell, the spherical cast-iron weight used in strength training.
The object holds its reference without softening it. The kettlebell shape stays intact, translated into thin porcelain with the kind of precision KPM's craftspeople have applied to tableware and decorative objects for centuries. Each body is hand-sprayed at KPM's manufactory near Berlin's Tiergarten, in either blue or orange. The handle receives a coat of hand-painted platinum. On the side, the number "8 KG" is embossed into the surface, as though the piece were stamped at a foundry rather than painted in a porcelain studio.
The contrast between material and form is the point. Porcelain reads as fragile. A kettlebell reads as heavy, utilitarian, built for repeated impact. Placing one inside the other produces something that does not fully belong to either category.
The edition launches publicly at Other Circle, a design platform in Copenhagen, between June 10 and 13, 2026. The installation presents the teapots on a steel weight rack, set against training mats and a mirror. The staging mimics a gym without functioning as one. The teapots sit where weights would normally rest, waiting to be picked up for a different kind of use.
Sucuk und Bratwurst frames the piece as a deliberate shift in pace. Where a kettlebell demands effort and repetition, the teapot asks you to stop, sit, and brew something. The physical form of exercise equipment becomes the vessel for a slower ritual.
SporTea: the Kettlebell Teapot is limited to 100 pieces per color. It goes on sale June 11, 2026, priced at €600, available in all KPM Berlin stores and through their website.
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