Cattaneo describes “Just my cup of tea(r)s” as a duet between “the ethereality of glass and the solidity of aluminum.” The glass element, a substantial teardrop, is a testament to Venetian glassmaking techniques. It begins with the sommerso method, layering rose glass over a white core. This core is encased in iridescent clear glass using the incamiciato technique, followed by a pulegoso treatment that introduces a delicate fizz of entrapped air bubbles. The result is an object of remarkable depth, rich color, and subtle iridescence.

The title, a wordplay on "cup of tears" and "cup of tea," evokes a sense of painful, self-aware vulnerability. In relationships, change is the only certainty–we part by our own volition or are rent apart by mortality. This sense of precarity and inevitability is reflected in the glass teardrop’s combination of delicacy and crystalline permanence. Given millennia and the workings of gravity, it will slowly descend to the ground.