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The walking tea set was a postmodern phenomena. The first one made is shown here being exhibited on a custom-made table by a Royal College furniture designer.
The first one was hand-made, thrown and turned and press-moulded in the Lustre Pottery studio in Yorkshire in 1973. At this time the pottery produced 40 cups and 10 tea pots a week.
As demand grew it was cast in Stoke-on-Trent and decorated and glazed by Lustre; a hundred items a week.
Soon afterwards it went into mass-prodcution by Carlton Ware until the factory's closure in 1986. Its sister factory, Price Kensington, continued to make a few items, although the quality was poorer.
