Studio Sayu celebrates tea culture in a modern context
and interconnects contemporary aesthetics
with traditional artisan tea.
Hosting Pop Up Tea Bars and Ceremonial Tea
in Switzerland since 2023.
Swiss Designer Days / Opia Zurich / Retreat Design Preis Schweiz / Chatêau de Raymontpierre / Art Basel / Softspace Basel / Rietberg Museum / Edition Populaire
Host & Curator
Nadine Möckli has been passionate about tea since five 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.
The act of drinking tea and it's connected aesthetics, senses, emotions and intellect are always building the center point of her events.
​
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 most of the teashops sell big portions only, she wants to contribute with small sample sizes, so everyone is welcome to explore.
​
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.​
​​​​​​​
​​
2024 - now
Nadine started working at Länggass-Tee in Bern. She's managing inhouse and external events in the field of tea pairing, managing multidisciplinary collaborative projects as well as conceptualizing teaschool modules for B2B costumers. Additionally expanding her tea knowledge and sensory skills on a tea sommeliere level.
2023​
Nadine founded Studio Sayu.
​
2018-2023
Nadine has been working in the fields of gastronomy, interior design and shop management in Basel and Zurich.
Simultaneously she has been working on her own design practises participating in multidisciplinary collective projects.
​
2019
Nadine's interest in tea culture has sparked through a one week long tea workshop at Länggass-Tee. Ever since she has been deepen her tea practice, expanded her knowledge through workshops and started to blend her affinity for design, hospitality and tea.
​
2018
Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW in Basel, Switzerland.
​​