Thursday, January 27, 2011

Home Goods



Just a few short blocks from Shoreditch High Street overground and Brick Lane Market is Labour and Wait. An East End jewel, the tiny shop presents an amazing range of home-good basics with almost museum-like reverence -- each individually showcased as a timeless marvel of form & function. An exquisite mix of modern and traditional, L & W offers a vast range of vintage classics in a way that gently persuades you of their inevitable usefulness. Don't even enter through that glossy black door unless you're prepared to spend some serious GBP's -- it's quite impossible to leave without a bag-full of beautiful items you've just realized your home desperately needs.





Here's a few items I'm no longer able to live without...






Not in the area?  Fear not -- Labour and Wait delivers (though not yet outside Europe).

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