Founded in 1897, the Cooper Hewitt is a historic design museum located in the Upper East Side belonging to 'Museum Mile' located in Manhattan, New York.
Founded by pioneers, sisters Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt, the first women to found an American museum. The Hewitt sisters envisioned and built a teaching collection that inspired students to design and was accessible to all. From the inception of Cooper Hewitt, they encouraged people to step forward and become activists for design.
From its inception the Cooper Hewitt Museum has encouraged people to step forward and become activists for design, upholding the sisters visionary philosophy.
The Hewitt Sisters Blend
Loose Leaf Tea | BlackCo-designed with Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. This captivating blend celebrates the museum's monumental 125th anniversary, its brilliant founders, the Hewitt Sisters, and the exhibition in their honor.
$34 USD
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Blending Notes
Aroma Romantically complex & verdant
Palate Musky-sweet & captivating
Purpose Encourage imaginative expression
Ingredients
Keemun and yunnan black, organic green tea, marigold and rose petals, mango and passionfruit natural flavor
High Caffeine
BLEND NO. 10011
Sustainability
Our loose leaf is packed in tins that are recyclable and can be disposed of in your blue bin. Our tins are also food-safe and can be repurposed for many things including spices and other dried ingredients. Learn More about sustainability at TEALEAVES.
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"There is a mysterious charm about the pleasure-grounds of [the Hewitt gardens]. All kinds of fruits, and everywhere, flowers."
— Elizabeth Duer, House & Gardens Magazine (1902)
About This Blend
MAKE THE PERFECT CUP OF TEA
TEALEAVES
1 Tsp
Water
8 oz
Fire
210°F
Steep
2-3 Min
About Cooper Hewitt,
SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM
THE EXHIBITION:
Sarah & Eleanor Hewitt:
Designing a Modern Museum
ON VIEW: FEBRUARY 4TH – OCTOBER 10TH 2022
Honoring the 125th anniversary of the Hewitt sisters' founding of the Cooper Hewitt collection, the founders, and their namesake exhibition — Sarah & Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum.
The exhibition chronicles the incredibly saturated lives and biographical story of the dynamic sisters and their contributions to the Cooper Hewitt museum collection.
The Hewitt sisters were members of high society, accomplished linguists, writers, musicians, artists, and athletes. With a love for beautiful objects and exquisite workmanship, their life work became sharing design with students and the broader community. As a part of New York City history, the exhibition is meant to live on, educate, and be accessible to the larger community.
Co-Design Partners
TEALEAVES x COOPER HEWITT
We had the incredible privilege of collaborating closely with Pamela Horn, Director of Cross-Platform Publishing and Strategic Partnerships at Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, to create the graphics for the packaging label design.
The Cooper Hewitt label is inspired by the wondrous stories told about the Hewitt sisters through the objects they collected throughout their colorful lives in high society and countless escapades through Europe.
Featuring intriguing specimens of art from their diverse collection — spanning from textiles and buttons, decorative engravings, to birdcages, the label is designed to manifest an imaginative expression.
Beyond the typically stoic visual language of museums, the label design composition combines a vibrant color palette with a pattern of bold geometric shapes and prints.
The label also incorporates the custom Cooper Hewitt typeface, used widely across the museum's graphics. The typography is reversed out of a colored block for universal accessibility.
SPECIMENS FROM THE HEWITT SISTERS' COLLECTING PURSUITS
Handscreen
Gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt
1931-43-24
Mount
Gift of Jacob H. Schiff
1904-20-401
Fragment of a Rank Badge (China)
Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
1902-1-506-a
Pleated Fan
Bequest of Miss Elizabeth d'Hauteville Kea
1923-24-8
Object ID #18136891
Gift of George Arnold Hearn
1903-9-13-a,b
Bird Cage in the Form of a Church Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
1916-19-95-a/c
Button
Gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt
1931-59-649
Mount
Gift of Jacob H. Schiff
1904-20-358
Sidewall (France)
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
1928-2-110
Birdcage
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
1916-19-30-a/d
Bird Cage in the Form of a Church Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
1916-19-95-a/c
Button
Gift of Sarah Cooper Hewitt
1931-59-649
Mount
Gift of Jacob H. Schiff
1904-20-358
Sidewall (France)
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
1928-2-110
Birdcage
Gift of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt
1916-19-30-a/d