Aluminum supplied by Alcoa Inc., Pittsburgh, Pa. (www.alcoa.com), was recently cast into one of the first items it had originally been used for more than 100 years ago--a teapot.

New York City industrial designer Joey Roth's Sorapot evolved from an unlikely combination of the artist's love of tea and an engineering class on bridges. The design of the ultramodern pot, Roth says, emphasizes tea making as a ritual while showcasing the brewing of tea leaves.

"I was originally going to cast it from stainless steel, but aluminum's light weight and better flow rate gave me the freedom to design exactly the shapes I had in mind," explains Roth. There is no other metal that ...

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