Host & Curator
Nadine Möckli has been passionate about tea since many years. She is fascinated by the complexity of tea, tea culture and it's artisinal crafts. Additionally she is deeply interested in unfolding the potential of contemporary forms, rituals and gestures. Evermore in noticing and honoring the origin of tea and history.
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2024 - now​ Nadine is working at the Swiss tea brand Länggass-Tee in Bern. She's managing events in the field of tea pairing and multidisciplinary collaborative projects. Additionally conceptualizing teaschool modules for B2B costumers. Expanding her tea knowledge and sensory skills on a tea sommeliere level.
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​2023 Nadine founded Studio Sayu.
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2019-2023 Nadine has been working in the fields of gastronomy, interior design and shop management in Basel and Zurich.
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2018 Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW in Basel, Switzerland.
Concept
Studio Sayu celebrates tea culture in a modern context. Cultivating curiosity, care and rest.
Hosting Pop Up Tea Bars and Ceremonial Teain Switzerland since 2023.
Swiss Designer Days / Opia Zurich / Retreat Design Preis Schweiz / Chatêau de Raymontpierre / Art Basel / Softspace Basel / Rietberg Museum / Edition Populaire
Ceremonial Tea
Studio Sayu invites you to reconnect with the present moment and replenish your energy from the daily rush through focusing on tea, it's color, taste and texture while honoring the craftmanship that has been put in it.
Tea Bars
Catering
Tea Pairing
Tea offers a complexity in taste similar to wine and even beyond. Today people are asking for non alcoholic alternatives. Tea provides an unlimited palette of flavor notes and a complex drinking experience. As a fulltime working barista and bar manager for many years, Nadine has always been interested in contemporary culinary concepts. With the Tea Bar she wants to contribute to an exciting and healthy new bar culture in Switzerland.
As a tea enthusiast for several years, Nadine has always been curious about exploring the wide range of tea. Over all these years she has come across mindblowing artisinal teas, which made her gather a small selection of her all time favorites.
Since Nadine designed ceramic accessories-objects for her final fashion collection in 2018, she has developed a close connection to clay. Her objects are focusing on raw surfaces and simple forms, which highlight the clay, its rawness, and its sensuality. The traces left in the clay by the shaping fingers and tools are not ‘repaired’ but rather exposed. It is a search for essence, naturalness, character, and intuition. It is an invitation to celebrate and appreciate simple daily rituals through sculptural objects.​