Tea leaves strong impression

I have felt the power of fine china, and it is strong.

When I interviewed Jasmine Williamson about Tea Rose, her five-year-old luxury tea party business, we met in the windowless basement room of a co-working space in Nashville’s Sylvan Park neighborhood. The walls were concrete, the floors were scuffed, and the stackable black chairs were designed for corporate anonymity. Yet Williamson and her 12-year-old daughter, Jaila Rose, had transformed the place.