Making Art History
The Boulevard Sentinel’s cover story on a different way to give back to the community, through art, animals and a meditation garden.
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Welcome to a world of art, tea & wonder
TAJ ART INC
Studio Gallery &
The Rams Horn Secret Tea Garden
Eagle Rock, Los Angeles. By reservation and invitation.
Knocking opens the gate with sound.
Turn it off any time with the gramophone.
Est. 2016 Embracing Creatures of Being
01 A path of your own
Embracing Creatures of Being
Some places are
meant to be found.
TAJ ART INC is a studio gallery and secret tea garden in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, made by the artist Trace Fryer and the producer John Fryer.
A portion of every booking and acquisition helps animals around the world. Everything here is by reservation or by invitation. Choose a path.
“Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and be remembered long after the prism of politeness.”
Abraham Lincoln
02 A table beneath the trees
Since a summer in 1934
The Rams Horn
Secret Tea Garden
In the hot summer of 1934, the educator Miss Anne Loomis Shepard set tables among the flowers and opened The Rams Horn, a tea room in this garden.
The trees still give shade for teatime.
The story of the tea room“Welcome, welcome little stranger, Fear no harm, and fear no danger; We are glad to see you here, For you sing “Sweet Spring is near.” Now the white snow melts away; Now the flowers blossom gay; Come dear bird and build your nest, For we love our robin best.”
Louisa May Alcott
03 Through the cottage door
The art of Trace & John Fryer
The Studio Gallery
Paintings and drawings by Trace, photographs by John, and curiosities for homes and gardens. Viewed by appointment.
“Standing on the bare ground, —my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
04 Listen a little closer
Something Romantical Affect
The Symphony
of Winter Solstice
Trace & John Fryer
The Village Green
The garden’s stage. Trace and John write and record here as Something Romantical Affect.
John produces records in the studio, as he has since his years at Blackwing Studios in London.
John Fryer, producer
Hear their musicProduction or booking inquiryDepeche Mode
Cocteau Twins
This Mortal Coil
Nine Inch Nails
“Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Between the garden & the story
The Eldritch Forest
“Step lightly, fairies, pixies
and gnomes underfoot!”
It grows darker here. In Trace’s book, and in the garden, this is the path a wedding party walks from the tea garden to the labyrinth.
Read the tales06 For a promise, quietly made
The Bramhall Labyrinth & Temple Stables
A small ceremony.
A world of meaning.
Small ceremonies and elopements, walked from the tea garden through the Eldritch Forest to the labyrinth.
Up to about 32 guests. Ceremonies only, with no reception.
From $780for two hours, with cleaning and security includedFour hours: price on inquiry.
Begin your wedding inquiryHow weddings work
“Loosely bound, By countless silken ties of love and thought, To everything on earth the compass round.”
Robert Frost
Eagle Rock, Los AngelesArt, tea & curious things
The Garden Gazette
News of the garden, then and now.
Tables among
the flowers
Meet the educator who opened The Rams Horn tea room in this very garden.
Discover the storyA letter for
every season
News of tea, shows, new art and the book. Four letters a year.
In Joy, TAJ ART INCStories from the garden
“The wise look upon childhood, youth, old age, life, and death as passing dramas, hence everything entertains them.”
Paramahansa Yogananda
Art with a purpose
Creatures of Being
TAJ ART INC is a benefit corporation. A portion of every booking and acquisition is given to animal charities around the world.
The garden itself is a Certified National Wildlife Federation sanctuary.
The gate is only the beginning
Find us
in Eagle Rock.
1492 Colorado Boulevard, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA 90041In Historic Hartwick Heights, on Route 66.
By reservation and invitation only.
Goodnight from the garden.
In Joy, TAJ ART INC
“It is one soul which animates all men.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson