Calma Chicha
A favorite of a friend with an apartment in B.A.:
“Calma Chicha is a friendly place to buy cow hides.”
Destination: Buenos Aires
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30quarenta
This modern/contemporary gallery is most well known for its kitschy furniture and fun home accessories, including bowling pins that bear the face of tango legend Carlos Gardel.
Airedelsur
Store owner-designer Marcelo Lucini hires regional artisans to create his famous silver and carved-deer-bone trays, candelabras, photo frames, Champagne buckets, cutlery and more. Buy directly from his BA showroom and pay much less than you would back home at Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus or Barneys New York.
Cardamom
Antique buffs should visit this Recoleta antique shop, for its wonderful Art Nouveau selection. Ask for Miguel Bornstein or Jaime Eguiguren, who specializes in 18th and 19th century European paintings.
Casa Didot
Architect Isabel Fermin Didot is half French and her Palermo Viejo shop showcases a sensibility rooted in l’art de vivre with an appreciation for the rustic that probably comes from having logged many days on estancias. She works as an interior designer and has a great eye for the clothes, furniture and objects that you find here.
Della Signoria
A reliable antique shop, Della Signoria stocks an array of objects d’art and fabrics.
Rambo
Malu Tuffano and Gustavo Tuffano carry a selection of antiques from 17th and 18th-century Europe.
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