chaepitie

project team

2016

TEA PARTY
Tverskaya Square, Moscow
2017

program: theme garden, architectural and landscape object

Participant in the international competition of urban landscape design

The project beats the traditions of the Russian tea party: around the city fountain there are tea tables and chairs of different shapes, on the tables there are appliances and utensils, inside which there are «treats» - floral compositions.

Flowers and herbs are selected only those that can be added to tea or from which decoctions are made. Thus, the compositions consist of chamomile, sage, nails, St. John's wort, clabber and many other plants of the Central Russian strip that have a medicinal benefit and good taste.

On all but one table there are vases in the form of tea utensils with pleasantly smelling plants inside. Visitors are invited to sit down at the tables to listen to delicious flowers. The tea ceremony promotes the unification of people, as well as traditional cast iron tables and chairs are combined into four single compositions, which are perceived not as separate objects, but as urban sculpture.

Tables are welded to each other, losing their original function, but gaining expressiveness and ironic character in the general composition.

There are large tables for adults, and small ones for which children can sit. One of the tables is left without decor, here a visitor can record or sketch his impressions of the taste and odors of the «tea environment».