PORT and Sage explore the rhythms of creativity in The Art of Duality, a three-part content series featuring Thomas Straker, Max Radford, Rejina Pyo and Jordan Bourke. Revealed over the coming weeks, the series marks the launch of Sage’s flagship Oracle™ Dual Boiler – a machine built for both speed and craftsmanship, mirroring the balance that shapes creative lives
A creative day is rarely linear. It moves between bursts of focus and moments of pause, between ideas that come quickly and those that take time to form. For many, this rhythm is what fuels their work: a chef balancing the precision of a recipe with the spontaneity of a new flavour; a designer switching between fast-paced client deadlines and slow, reflective sketching; a maker alternating between collaboration and solo experimentation. Creativity, after all, is never just one thing.
The Art of Duality – a new content series from PORT and Sage – brings together four creatives whose days are defined by these shifts in pace. Across three short films, chef Thomas Straker, designer and gallerist Max Radford, and the creative pair Rejina Pyo and Jordan Bourke reveal how rhythm, focus and rest shape their work – and how coffee threads through it all.
The series also marks the launch of Sage’s flagship Oracle™ Dual Boiler, designed for those who value both control and convenience. Sage, known for its kitchen appliances and award-winning espresso machines, has developed the Oracle™ Dual Boiler as its premium flagship, offering the ability to switch between manual and automatic brewing modes for either a fully automated workflow or hands-on espresso crafting. It also enables espresso extraction and milk steaming to happen simultaneously, while the new Auto Dial-in system – which monitors each extraction and automatically adjusts the grind size – helps improve the next espresso shot. To explore this duality, Port and Sage step inside the homes and studios of four leading creatives. For Straker, the London-based chef behind Straker’s in Notting Hill, days begin early and end late, structured around both discipline and spontaneity – and always, a coffee. “The first thing I would do in the morning is have a coffee. Today, I had a cortado, and I had a bit of time. So I made it on this manual setting, and you have a bit more of that creative freedom.”
For Radford, the designer and gallerist, his South London flat doubles as both creative sanctuary and practical workspace – a place to think, draw and live amongst the furniture he champions through his gallery. “We’re easily able to just make a coffee in the morning, pressing a button, or you can fiddle around and learn how to make coffee on the weekends,” he says.
For fashion designer Pyo and chef Bourke, their shared home is both a studio and a kitchen, where sketches, ingredients and ceramics coexist. “On a busy day, you don’t know where you can stop for a coffee, so I like to make it at home,” says Pyo. Bourke, whose career spans kitchens, books and broadcast, adds: “It’s very fast-paced […] I love having the time to make more manual coffee. It’s a bit more of a labour of love – such a ritual.”
Together, their routines illustrate the oscillation between speed and stillness, automation and craft – the same duality reflected in the Sage Oracle™ Dual Boiler. The full series, including individual films and profiles of Straker, Radford, Pyo and Bourke, will be released on PORT in the coming weeks.
Production Studio Union
Exec producer Dan Pickard
Director & DoP Theo Tennant
Lighting & camera assistant Matt Bramston
Hair & makeup / groomer Margherita Lascala
Port producer Jack Stacey
Port editor Ayla Angelos
Production assistant Annabelle Brown
Barista / drinks stylist Luke Lane
Edit Ned Donohoe
Edit David Tse
Colourist Lucrezia Pollice
Dub Tom Guest
EMEA PR & Partnerships manager Kira Schacht
Breville Group General manager, global communications Lucy Martyn
Concept agency John Doe
