Écrire le monde, savourer la vie

For the past 20 years, writers’ tea has been contributing to cultural life in France and abroad.
An original range of teas created and composed with noses, a line of natural stationery made from cotton paper, editions, partnerships and associations with numerous cultural events and literary gatherings.

a world of writing
meets a world of flavours

An art of gesture and exchange, tea has celebrated the values of hospitality and sharing for centuries. Georges-Emmanuel Morali, gourmet traveler and astute publisher, has always been involved in the world of books. He came up with a way of creating a special link between readers and writing: Le Thé des Écrivains was born in 1999 at the Paris Book Fair. A space for meeting, debate and tasting, the stand is a success.
This is the birth of a multi-faceted structure based on the principles of pleasure and discovery.
Spaces, stationery collections, a line of original teas, a cultural commitment.

The first small store on rue Saint Claude in the Marais district of Paris in 2000, still little used by any of the galleries today, then the slightly larger one on rue des Minimes in 2003 next to Place des Vosges, which became Le Salon by Thé des Écrivains in 2013 when the space was enlarged, until its closure at the end of 2015, the creation of the Librairie du Palais de la Porte Dorée in 2014 following the concession obtained until its closure, and finally the Librairie du Cinéma du Panthéon which fortunately still exists today thanks to the special relationship with the Cinéma and the Salon du Panthéon.

Tea, a beverage with a strong imaginary and poetic dimension, has always been a beverage of welcome and sharing, of special and intimate moments. The tea ceremony is a gesture of hospitality and exchange: a strong emotional bond is infused with its leaves. Each sip of tea tells the story of a people or an epic, and the diversity of its flavors is an invitation to travel, to romance, to hospitality and conviviality.
Preparing black tea under a yurt in the Hindu Kush mountains, drinking mate in Manaus on the banks of the Amazon, having a cup of tea with the Queen of England at Buckingham Palace, gulping lemon tea at the station bistro before a big departure, smelling chai in Calcutta in a small terracotta pot thrown on the ground, visit a tea house in Yunnan on a spring morning, enjoy a green tea in Kyoto in the shade of a cherry blossom tree, get drunk on spiced tea in Marrakesh while leafing through the Thousand and One Nights, or enjoy a red hibiscus tea near Kilimanjaro….and sometimes allow teas to take on alcoholic variants.

It’s from this sensory constellation that Thé des Écrivains draws its inspiration for hedonistic products, designed to savor life while remaining modern and resolutely in tune with the times.