Last month, Designer Bryan Graybill shared his 'charcuterie formula' and how to host a grazing moment that feels generous, chic and inviting. This month, we talked to him about another reason to get together in a way that feels casual yet special: Afternoon tea.
For Bryan Graybill, tea is less about tiers of petits fours and more about punctuation. 'It marks a pause in the day’s work and commitments,' he says. 'It matters because it creates rhythm – ceremony without fuss.' At the Dowager Inn in East Hampton, his tea ritual has become a daily marker, a fixed window of 45 minutes that feels refreshingly finite. 'I have a short attention span,' he laughs. 'Tea is the perfect social event because it has an easy in and a fixed out.'
