Illustrated tea caddies

Its oriental provenance alone once made tea exotic, but now it has to sing and dance to draw us in. A beautiful box helps, and packaging is moving on from cardboard pastiches of Chinese caddies to tins that are more tangential. We have no idea what a hippo has to do with Keemun or an elephant with Assam, but we like Tea Note’s animal-inspired take on the caddy. The six blends come in leaf form.

30 September 2006 | Lifestyle