This teapot was one of the Bauhaus’s most imaginatively experimental designs. Theodor Bogler designed the ‘Combination Teapot’ as a modular building-block system. Only six individual elements – body, lid, funnel, handle, handle eyelets, and spout – could be combined into a surprisingly large number of different teapots. The body, for example, could also be used upside down. Bogler’s design was thus a particularly good implementation of Gropius’s demand for ‘unity in diversity’ by ‘restricting oneself to typical basic forms and colours that are comprehensible to everyone’. Bogler’s aim was to achieve ‘factory-like mass moulding’. Although the system did not go into industrial production and the teapot was only manufactured in small series, Bogler’s design is a particularly good reflection of the fresh spirit and urge to innovate at the Bauhaus in its Weimar years.