Downtown Buenos Aires is truly magical, and probably the most illustrative area of the city’s old days charm. I can bet this was one of the main reasons why Editor Market, the new department store was settled in this ...

MARíA CASADO HOME GALLERY

2013.2.26　 Text: Celeste Najt

The northern area of Buenos Aires hides a beauty unthought-of by the foreign visitor. The green patches on the river bank, the number of plant species in the streets and the period houses put a stop to the hectic ...

FAENA ART CENTER

2012.6.26　 Text: Celeste Najt

Idea-exchanges, experimentation and cultural investigation. © Faena Art Center In September 2011 one of the most ambitious art projects in Argentina was opened to the public: the Faena Art Center. This 4,000-s...

KOSICE MUSEUM

2012.5.21　 Text: Celeste Najt

Gyula Kosice was born in 1924 in the bosom of a Hungarian family, in the city of Kosice, the name he picked as his artistic name. He arrived in Argentina when he was 4 years old, and became a naturalized Argentinean c...

MONO

2010.11.18　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

There’s a cute and cozy office at the back of a store, where nice people make nice things. That happens a lot in Buenos Aires. Everywhere, we discover people making incredibly nice and wearable stuff for us, lucky vis...

PURR LIBROS

2010.6.9　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

There’s a very cozy little place at a gallery in Barrio Norte, in Buenos Aires. It is called Purr and its owner is poet and photographer Marina Alessio. There we can find the most rare books about art, design, illust...

LA DOMINGA

2010.1.21　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

When interviewing Pablo Gamba, he introduced me to a little nice store he owns with his girlfriend Ana: La Dominga. Dominga, the feminine for Domingo, means Sunday in Spanish. It’s like Sunday’s girlfriend. Or a place...

CUALQUIER VERDURA

2009.3.25　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

Cualquier Verdura could be a dream house. Or a fantastic invention created by the minds of two siblings with plenty of imagination. These two, Violeta and Esteban Brenman, took this house and transformed it into a...

SPINA

2006.12.5　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

Spina is cool. It's a modern brand created by two young and promising designers who get along wonderfully. Spina is nice. Their clothes are elegant and smart; they surely know what they're doing. That's what we might ...

JAPANESE GARDEN

2004.5.3　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

The Japanese Garden is situated in a very green neighbourhood in Buenos Aires: Palermo. It was built in 1967, when the Japanese emperors Akihito and Michiko came to Argentina. In the eighties, the Garden was se...

LA BOCA

2003.11.2　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

It was a sunny Sunday morning when I took a ride to La Boca, one of the most ancient and popular neighborhoods of Buenos Aires. I didn't really know what to expect, because I used to go there as a child and it wasn't ...

BUENOS AIRES MUSEUM OF MODERN ART (MAMBA)

2003.9.1　 Text: Gisella Lifchitz

Located in a tourist and traditional neighborhood called San Telmo, the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires (MAMBA) building reminds us of the Middle East architectural style. In San Telmo, we can see the cohabitatio...