The last owner descended from the founding family was Demoiselle Marthe Cottin. The thirty year old Dutchman Richard Bueno was in search of a fulfilling activity which would earn him a living and allow him to travel.
One of his grandfathers owned a tea plantation in Indonesia. His father was a doctor and owned some fruit plantations near the Thai capital Bangkok. Against the advice of all their friends, these two young friends with no prior knowledge of the tea business began to work for Marthe Cottin, who introduced them into the tea trade and culture — in the first months without any pay. Sangmanee traveled around Europe in search of the famous tea culture.
In England, the country which had invented the tea time , he was disappointed to find always the same handful of teas of average quality. Kitti Cha Sangmanee now heads the company alone. Taking the French quality wines and wine culture as an example, Richard Bueno and Kitti Cha Sangmanee have created an unmatched tea universe. Already the founding family patented their tea chocolates in Since , many new products including poudre de jade a green tea powder and tea salt, which can be used as a spice, have been created.
They have established a previously unknown vocabulary, again taking the French wine tradition as an example. Last but not least, they have established guiding information on the art of making fine tea, and this for all of their hundreds of teas: selecting water, selecting a teapot, temperatures, infusion times, quantities of tea to use, etc.
At number 30 rue du Bourg-Tibourg in the artsy Marais district of Paris, tea lovers enter a very refined world, but a comfortable well-aged one full of history. There are hundreds of tea canisters and the tea is weighed on the same old scales.
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