Architect, designer, thinker, and writer all at once, the Italian artist Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) left a lasting mark on the world of architecture and design by conceiving a functional and sensitive design whose vocation was to act on the spheres of the unconscious to "help people live". Between 1961 and 1963, the experience of illness and a near-death state following a trip to India led him to design ceramic objects with symbolic shapes and therapeutic functions. Coming from the "Indian Memories" series, the Lapislazuli teapot—in reference to this stone reputed to be protective in lithotherapy, and whose shape recalls the stepped architectures of ziggurats and the Tower of Babel—pursues this research around magical and energetic objects.