Step into Russ & Daughters on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and you're greeted by a time capsule of the real NYC: generous vats of bagel schmears, the lively crush of hungry patrons, white-jacketed countermen and women presiding over slabs of sturgeon – the spoils of it eventually landing on simple white ceramics piped in signature cobalt blue. Now, those gloriously unfussy dishes are leaving the counter for a new tabletop collection with West Elm.
True to its Jewish-American DNA, the kitchen collection spans pickled-herring-emblazoned platters, kitschy keepsake boxes, and a menorah for good measure. The whites and blues are familiar – still sturdy, still a lot less precious than porcelain – but that famous electric piping now takes on a sharper, more graphic edge (it is the LES, after all), making the tableware just as apropos for the open shelf as the dinner table.
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