One cup of Mulan tea, one Mulan Maison.
In Hangzhou, MULAN TEA STORY® now has a space of its own.
MULAN MAISON · HANGZHOU
The Mulan Maison is not a larger tea shop.
It is our spatial expression of a cup of tea, of an object, of an Eastern way of living, and of the
brand world of MULAN TEA STORY®.
From tea to objects; from product to culture; from a tea gathering to the meeting of people.
Here, Mulan no longer lives only in packaging, imagery and story.
It becomes a space one can walk into.
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GLASS OUTSIDE. TEA WITHIN.
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Glass on the outside. Tea within.
The building opens toward the city, and people slow down inside.
Glass lets the building and the city see each other.
And a cup of tea lets time recover its own pace.
The city outside, the East within.
This is the spatial relation MULAN MAISON · HANGZHOU wishes to express.
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TEA
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This place belongs to tea first.
The land, the season, the craft, the objects and the drinking of a cup of tea all deserve to be taken seriously.
Begin with a cup of tea, and come to know Mulan's choices in tea.
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OBJECTS
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A gaiwan, a tea cup, a glass fairness pitcher.
Objects give a cup of tea its shape, and give time a scale that can be touched.
White porcelain, glass and contemporary design together form the Mulan tea table of today.
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ART
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We wish art not to be a decoration within the space.
It should relate to the architecture, the objects, the tea, and what people feel.
Let Eastern culture be not only observed, but able to enter life today.
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CULTURE
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Mulan is an Eastern name that crosses a thousand years.
Today, we do not wish merely to repeat an old story.
What concerns us more:
Courage. Choice. Growth. Love. Return.
What belongs to Mulan belongs also to everyone who walks their own road today.
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HOSPITALITY
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Tea returns, in the end, to the space between people.
For friends, for family, for honoured guests, and for a meeting worth taking seriously.
Keep a place for tea.
Sometimes the finest hospitality does not need many words.
A good cup of tea is enough to express earnestness.
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EXPERIENCE
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MULAN MAISON · HANGZHOU is not only a place where products are displayed.
We hope tea, objects, space, culture, content and new ways of experience will meet here, naturally.
You may come for a cup of tea.
Look at an object.
Meet a story.
Or simply sit down,
and let the city stay outside the glass for a while.
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ONE HOUSE. THREE TEMPOS.
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One Mulan Maison, three tempos of tea
F1 · TEA
Return to the cup of tea itself.
Begin with tea, and know the point where Mulan's tea begins.
F2 · TEA & COFFEE
East and world meet at the same table.
The stillness of tea, the awakening of coffee.
F3 · TEA & SPIRITS
When night arrives, tea begins another expression.
Tea into spirits.
A toast to the distance, and to the return.
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One cup of tea, from product to space
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A brand can be seen.
A product can be owned.
But some things can only be felt after truly walking into a space.
Light.
Material.
The scent of tea.
Objects.
The distance between people.
And, once seated, how time changes.
So for one cup of tea, we kept a space.
A cup of tea is Mulan's beginning.
A house is a door into the world of Mulan.
In Hangzhou,
drink a cup of Mulan tea,
walk into a Mulan Maison.
MULAN MAISON · HANGZHOU
One cup of Mulan tea, one Mulan Maison
MULAN TEA STORY®
Go far. Return to yourself.
