Welcome to the Teapotplaza

HotTeapots.com - the Teapotplaza is the company of Wim and Nora Varwijk. Since 2003 we sell teapots and more worldwide. Since 2009 we also run a store in Doetinchem, the Netherlands. We now sell over 150 tea-variations.

Our history: Many people ask us how we did come to sell teapots, here is the story: we started collecting teapots in het late 1980's. Our first one was a cat on a dustbin. We still have it. Over time we bought teapots in many countries, from large factories, local potteries, antique stores and over the internet. Our personal collection counts to date about 250 different teapots. When we created our personal website in 2001 we listed our collection on line as well. Since that attracted a lot of attention we decided to create an on line store and started selling teapots. We made our first sale in December 2003 and since our business has been growing steadily. We enjoy the contacts with collectors and customer from all over the world. End 2004 the space we used in our house ran out, we created a business plan and we decided to buy a small warehouse with showroom. Over time we have been building our assortment and we scan the internet and stores where ever we go for those good quality and special teapots. Right now we list over 1200 products and we will keep refreshing our assortment to add more great teapots and remove some categories that are less successful. In 2008 we decided that we should fulfil our dream to also open a store and we started looking for the right location. We found it in Doetinchem in the east of the Netherlands. We have opened our store in September 2009.