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Ming teas, the Treasure Teas of the world, are at home in a fabulous teahouse named the Ming Fair. The house was opened in early autumn at 22 Fast Sixty-seventh Street, New York, by Stephen Leeman Products as a convenience for food buyers. There are displayed epicurean products gathered from the world's far corners. But the Ming teas, as always, will be of first importance.
Open the turquoise-blue door into a foyer large as a drawing room, One entire wall is covered by a mural landscape painted by Yen Liang, Chinese representative to the United Nations Architectural Commission. Study closely the panorama of the blue-green rice paddies, of the tea plantations on the mountain plateaus. A room in dark Chinese reds. We wouldn't bat an eye if a golden peacock strutted past.
Stephen Leeman opens a door off the foyer and smiles us a welcome into his office done in cloud-gray touched with yellow Swedish modern. On his desk the autumn's first chrysanthemums, round gold, ripe gold, opulent. This house, he told us, was once the home of Marion Davies, remodeled now as a home for fine foods. But the gracious rooms have been left virtually unchanged. The fireplaces are wood-burning. The long windows across the front open to a narrow balcony. At the rear lies the garden typical of the hideaway open spaces behind New York brownstones.
Stephen Leeman planned the redecoration The feeling is Chinese, but he insists not, for it is intended to be like the teas—from every part of the world.
Follow the broad, winding stair to the second floor front, a room designed for tea-tasting parties, large enough to accommodate sixty people. There are also a tea-tasting bar and a small kitchen, where Virginia Kelly will experiment with new tea-service ideas and tall drinks and bowls using tea as a base.
The rear room overlooks the garden. this for the display of merchandise. Shelves arc shadow-box arrangements built into the walls. Here we examined all the teas in the line and sampled a picked half-dozen at the tasting bar.
The thing that impresses is the packaging. Numerous items are labeled “Epicurios, .” meaning that the tea is epicurean, the container a curio. The tea coffer, for one, is beautifully made of hinged English tin. Notice the hand blown amethyst Mexican bottles. The Ming tea bale, that's a straw matting affair. We admired the princess box designed! as a cigarette holder, also the Florentine box of carved wood for later use as a trinket container. Tea is packed in little vases, in teapots-for-two, in straw purses and pouches, in plain packages. and in varied assortments. Thirty-three different Ming teas, each with its own particular characteristics; and all of these teas and tea gifts are on the shelves of delicacy shops in many large cities.
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