Labour and Wait
Elevating humble housewares
Photo by Andy Moran
GO HERE: to visit the East London boutique that launched a thousand intensely curated home-tidying stores. Labour and Wait elevates the humble and no-tech items of yore, making chic the items once used by French workmen, British sailors, Swiss soldiers, and rural housewives.
GET THE: colorful enamel milk pots and cups, brushes for every type of cleaning, French workmen’s jackets (like those worn by chef Fergus Henderson) and Breton shirts, striped pastry twine, rugged fishermen’s sweaters, polka-dot handkerchiefs, and so on.
THE VIBE IS: neat in every sense of the word.
PRACTICAL STUFF: Open Tuesday to Friday, 11 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Closed Sunday. Read this New Yorker article before you go.
