An arrangement of water, leaves, bodies and attention.
Studio Sayu celebrates traditional tea culture in a modern context. Cultivating rest, care and connection.
Hosting Pop Up Tea Bars and Ceremonial Tea Sessions in Switzerland since 2023.
Artek x Hender Scheme / Basel Social Club / Fondation Beyeler / Swiss Designer Days / Opia Zurich / Design Preis Schweiz Retreat / Chatêau de Raymontpierre / Art Basel / Softspace Basel / Rietberg Museum / All past events
Curator & Host
Nadine Möckli has been passionate about tea for over seven years. She is fascinated by its complexity, the poetry of tea rituals, the richness of tea culture, and its artisanal crafts.
Her artistic practice explores the potential of contemporary forms, rituals, and gestures, while remaining deeply rooted in an appreciation of tea’s origins and history. Through her work, she seeks to honor the traditions of tea while discovering new ways of experiencing, interpreting, and expressing its cultural and sensory dimensions.
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. While expanding her tea knowledge and sensory skills on a tea sommeliere level.
2023 Nadine founded Studio Sayu.
2019-2023 Nadine has been working in the fields of gastronomy, interior design and shop management in Basel and Zurich.
2018 Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Design at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW in Basel, Switzerland.
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
Tea Pairing
Catering
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 & apero 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.