T-07
07 / 10Velarde Atelier

Tea Tasting: 2025

Two hands holding cigarette-box style tea packs in a dim room.

Tea is often treated as a routine beverage, overlooking its potential as a medium for social connection and spiritual exploration. T-07 designed an immersive tea-tasting experience divided into two environments: a social setting for interaction and a contemplative space for introspection and tarot readings. The result is a participatory ritual in which guests create personalized tea blends, housed in cigarette-box-inspired packaging that reframes tea as an alternative vice, connecting spatial design, sensory exploration, and the rituals of consumption.

Flat dieline for a tea pack: black-and-white plant imagery, the 茶 character and the Velarde wordmark.
A second pack dieline with flower photography and purple Velarde lettering.
A guest at a table of tea packs and blending tins, mid-conversation.
A guest drinking from a ceramic cup.
Two small ceramic cups and a vase on a round wooden table, a film date stamp in the corner.