HOT ! The Louvre Tea Collection

“The ceilings of the Louvre are made to contain the world”—Kim Gordon, “Untitled”

Discover the Louvre Collection, four exceptional signature blends created by Palais des Thés in partnership with the Louvre to pay tribute to one of the world’s greatest museums. This set of four miniature loose-leaf tins of tea is available in a beautiful gift box. It can be purchased on its own or with At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets, a collaboration between New York Review Books and the Louvre Museum.

Each tea blend comes in a beautifully designed little tin. Find yourself transported to Paris as you open the Thé du Louvre tins, which pay homage to the architectural wonders of the pyramid and the poetic charm of the Tuileries garden. And as you savor the caffeine-free herbal blends of the Infusion du Louvre teas, gaze at imagery that evokes ancient Egypt and Rome. 

This miniature box set includes each of the following teas:

• Thé du Louvre - Courtyard Tea: an enchanting and robust black tea with delicate notes of citrus and wild blackberries (1.2 oz. metal tin).
  


• Thé du Louvre - Garden Tea: a gourmet green tea with notes of apple, plum, and quince that transports you into the majestic Tuileries Garden (1.1 oz. metal tin).
  


• Garden of Venus – Infusion du Louvre Organic: a voluptuous and refined herbal tea that combines vanilla, orange and carob. It evokes both the warmth and the welcome shade of a Mediterranean garden (1.1 oz. metal tin).
  


• Egyptian Night - Infusion du Louvre Organic: a fresh and sweet herbal tea that combines peppermint, elderberries and blueberry (1.8 oz. metal tin).
  

At the Louvre: Poems by 100 Contemporary World Poets is edited by Antoine Caro, Edwin Frank, Donatien Grau, with a foreword by Laurence des Cars.

Of the world’s great museums, the Louvre is the most encompassing, a sumptuous collection that includes not only some of the most celebrated works of art of all time, but fascinating, perplexing, splendid, and beautiful objects of all kinds, all housed in a building, itself monumental, that was once the seat of the kings of France. In the grand corridors and multiplying backrooms of the Louvre, the history of the world and the history of art and the history of how we look and think about art and its place in our lives challenge and delight us at every corner. Few other public spaces are at once so haunted and so alive.

A unique collaboration between New York Review Books and the Louvre Museum, At the Louvre presents a hundred poems, newly commissioned exclusively for this volume, by a hundred of the world\'s most vibrant poets. They write about works from the museum\'s collection. They write about the museum and its history. They write what they see and feel, and together they take us on a tour of the museum and its galleries like no other, one that is an irresistible feast for the ear and mind and eye.

Some of the poets in At the Louvre: Kim Gordon, Simon Armitage; Barbara Chase-Riboud; Hélène Dorion; Jon Fosse; Fanny Howe; Kenneth Goldsmith; Lisette Lombé; Tedi López Mills; Precious Okoyomon; Charles Pennequin; Blandine Rinkel; Yomi Şode; Krisztina Tóth; Jan Wagner; Elizabeth Willis.

Paperback, 224 pages.