Aesthete Tea
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Aesthete Tea is a Woman, QPOC owned organic loose leaf tea and herbal blend brand, based in Portland, Oregon [3530 SW Multnomah Blvd, Portland Ore.] Founded by Briana Thornton in 2017, Aesthete Tea maintains a strong mission to know their farmers and source from individuals and collectives that share the same values in quality, ethics and health. Unique to Aesthete, the brand’s proprietary tea and herbal blends are created by Herbalist, Maggie Cassidy, who happens to be the Founder’s mother.
The Aesthete Tea Collective is branch of the Aesthete Tea brand that provides lectures/workships & household/lifestyle products that represent and promote a more conscious and less impactful way of living.
Aesthete Tea understands that the lands and skills used to succeed in our modern world would not be possible without our ancestors and their deep respect and knowledge for nature and the process of mindful creation. Aesthete Tea + The Collective were created to embrace and share the teachings of ancient traditions through the skills and community of modern individuals rooted in the folk healing practices of a variety of cultures.
The ultimate mission of both Aesthete Tea + The Collective is to bring the ancient respect and knowledge of tea & herbs to the current world, through a minimalist brand that represents the modern human.
Our herbs are primarily from local Oregon farms.
Our teas in our blends are farm direct from small family farms.
Our straight teas are from Old Growth (250+ years old) and Ancient Growth (500+ years old) trees.
We use a commercial kitchen, called the Portland Mercado. Everything is hand blended and hand packaged.
Briana Thornton is of indigenous (Lenape & Cherokee), African American and Irish decent. She was born and raised on the East Coast. Her mother, Aesthete Tea’s Tea Blender raised her outdoors and with all things art and nature. With her diverse background of multiple cultures rooted in spiritualism and herbalism, she was drawn to teas and the healing qualities of nature. She moved to New York City at 18 years old to attend the School of Visual Arts. Following her undergraduate degree she continued her education at NYU and worked as a Curator and Director of prominent Contemporary Art Galleries throughout New York City. She moved to Portland, Oregon in 2015 and created Aesthete Tea in 2017 in an effort to blend her interests and passions: art, nature and beauty. The Aesthete Tea house opened a year later which continues its operation in SW Portland.
Briana is a proud member of the LGBTQ2 community and a promotes an inclusive outlook through her brand.
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