Chinese tea · navy, teal and gold
The leaf sits in the middle of the illustration
Thirty-four Chinese teas set into cut-paper landscapes — gold-lined hills, cloud scrolls and pagodas — with the real leaf photographed and placed in the centre.
Chinese tea · navy, teal and gold
Thirty-four Chinese teas set into cut-paper landscapes — gold-lined hills, cloud scrolls and pagodas — with the real leaf photographed and placed in the centre.
3 teas · 3 categories
Every tea here is given a place rather than a description. The drawing is flat and layered like cut paper, so hills, cloud and water stack into depth without any photographic background, and the gold keyline holds the whole scene together at any size. Chinese tea earns that treatment honestly: longjing is a lake, da hong pao is a cliff, pu-erh is a forest of old trees, and the names already carry the scenery. Navy and teal keep the illustration cool, which leaves the leaf — warm in nearly every category — reading as the one real object in the frame. Titles are set in script and gold because the register is a picture book rather than a report, and the facts stay underneath in plain type. Nothing in the drawing is asked to prove anything about the tea; it only says where the tea comes from.