The soap dispenser could have looked like anything.
Most important to Flynn McGarry was to have a stylish vessel in keeping with the aesthetic of Gem Home, his new store and cafe in Manhattan. Its customers can nibble on lentils and slabs of parsnip cake at communal farm tables lit by tapered candles or browse shelves bearing a tight selection of comestibles and products like antique cutlery, cloth napkins and glass tumblers imported from Britain.
“My biggest thing was not just selling glass bottles of soap,” said Mr. McGarry, 25, a chef since his teenage years whom Vogue has called the
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