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Caption: Create 🐿 Sessions A Tea in the Garden
create
a temporary
Tea Room
in 2 weeks
Caption: One day, it was September, I had an inspiration. I suddendly had the need to prepare a Tea Room from scratch. One month later it was born. How did I do? Here is the story of my journey into a dream. With instructions. Here is my first 'Create 🐿 Sessions'.
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Caption: This is exactly the vision I had before starting to look for all the ingredients to prepare it. It had to be an immersive performance with Tea and sweet Treats.
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Caption: 1 room
1 quite crazy pastry chef
a bunch of nice and smart friends
1 friend full of vintage furnishings
1 enthusiastic nurserywoman
some digital and social skills
1 cupboard
1 desk
1 vanity table
1 round table
1 formica table
1 big old wood working table
1 carpet of synthetic grass
teapots, cups and saucers
spoons and sugar (optional)
1 portable 60's record player
indoor plants and flowers
laces
backsplashes
glasses
pitchers
1kettle
teas
treats
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Caption: Pina Siotto is a splendid and cool woman. She is a chef in love with the vegetable universe and she rewrites the world's recipes using no-animal ingredients.
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Caption: Ivana is a smart and curios friend. As a Scorpio woman she is really precise and perfect for preparing teas.
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Caption: Andrea is my boyfriend and a very generous guy, always ready to help and enjoy. My girlfriends call him 'Adorable'.
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Caption: many other friends came by to help, like Chef Montagnè
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Caption: Tea for two
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Caption: Savino, Andrea, Ivana
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Caption: top of the cupboard
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Caption: the beautiful plants from my nurserywomam Rita (Floridea).
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Caption: **the lovers' table**
most of cups, teapots and chairs
come from flea markets
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Caption: And this are Sara's hands: too shy to show herself, ok, but her delicate vegan sweets talked for herself
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Caption: A Tea in the Garden project went on for 2 and a half months in Bologna, at the first floor of a 'non-place', the local Coach Station, now transformed in a Art Gallery by the friends of Set Up, who gave us the possibility to transform a worn space into a Victorian Tea Room, where furnishings and plants where on sale.
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Caption: mulberry scones and kiwi cuts for the Afternoon Tea
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Caption: artwork on the wall by Chizu Kobayashi
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Caption: A Tea in the Garden On sunday december 6th the Tea Room closed. But the project is not closed. See you next spring!
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Caption: story and pictures by
Benedetta Cucci
apranzoconbea.blogspot.com
instagram: @bebecucci
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