Labour and Wait

The best design is the one you don't notice. This is also the belief of those responsible for Labour and Waita corner shop in the East London which has been offering, since 2000, a wide range of household products with a common denominator: they are all the minimum expression of what they stand for, timeless and functional design for everyday life.

It is a pleasure to browse through the website and to see beautiful and simple products with a design that combines quality and utility.The "traditional" objects, no pans with three handles, coffee cups with none, or misshapen bowls to "make pretty".

Here everything is used (and not thrown away), again and again, again and again and again, until the end of time or until it breaks from exhaustion, but yes, everything ages well and is destined to become a "favourite", for as the saying goes, chafing makes love... right?

These modern classics are produced today as they were yesterday and come from all over the world: cookware made in Japan or Austria, French crystal glasses just like the ones we used to use at school, the "Brown Betty"A classic English teapot from the end of the 17th century, a German bread box that has been in production since 1940, French candles from 1902, Portuguese notebooks from 1918, oh! even Papier d'Arménie! They are all old acquaintances, although we bet you'll be surprised if you poke around the web...

As Idealista's Christmas campaign says, "there's nothing wrong with the word simple". We couldn't agree more.