The Japanese porcelain industry dates from 1616 when a Korean ceramist discovered that you could make excellent porcelain with crushed stone from the Arita area. Keeping an industry alive for 400 years means not only careful nurture, but also innovation. Scholten & Baijings make tradition and innovation go hand in hand for their "Colour Porcelain". Scholten & Baijings created a service based on extensive research into Japanese Arita ceramics and an analysis of historical local masterpieces. One of the fine results is this set of 4 espresso cups. Stefan Scholten and Carole Baijings have been collaborating since 2000. Scholten studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven, Baijings is an autodidact. After the realisation of various projects in which they touched upon the borders between autonomous and applied works, their new works put more emphasis on design within the interior.