S. Robert Crockett, III created Tea & Empathy, Unlimited! as a Tea Salon and Book Shop on City Island in New York City where he offered fine art, antiques, ascots and pocket silks, pillows and ottomans, books, carpets, china, crystal, and fabrics for window treatments and other forms of furnishings.After relocating in 2004 into a 1905 stucco & terra cotta Meterranan villa (so large it had been used as the Savannah branch of the John Marshall Law School!) he has expanded his concept of the Tea Salon to include such Salon events as literary and musical evenings as well as art exhibits of painting, photography, and sculpture on the several floors of The Los Robles Gallery. A forty foot terrace on the north front and the gardenia gardens on either side of the stairs leading down through the garden to the side walk below, provide a perfect place for afternoon tea in March, April and May when their fragrance is at its height The Salon and dining room can each accomodate groups of a dozen, and the den can seat six. We have plans to add a large sunroom and to restore porches on the south side overlooking the back garden. Savannah is the perfect place to enjoy tea outdoors in the spring and fall when temperatures here are close to ideal. Even winter has many days in the seventies, and for those few other days, we have indoor seatings near one of our four fireplaces!Los Robles LLC incorporated in Georgia to cover activities from workshop and classes, discussion groups and seminars as well as The Spa at Los Robles and The Los Robles Collection which is now offered both on site and on the Internet.There are not only large spaces for classes, seminars and workshops extending from a few hours to a week, but also accomodation for such residential workshops. We have sleeping space provide for more than a dozen in two private bedrooms and several dormatories that can share our four and a half baths.
