Casa Yui sells ceramics for the table and for tea, lighting, bags, tea, accessories, furniture, woodwork, books, decoration, art and kimono wear. Its site says that in Japanese tradition yui means to join, connect, or tie with intention. The shop also lists workshops, tastings and gift cards.
Best for Japanese table ceramics, tea ware, lighting and kimono wear
Librería del Fondo is a bookshop and cultural centre that trades as Librería del Fondo y Centro Cultura Arnaldo Orfila Reynal. It gives its address as Costa Rica 4568 in Buenos Aires.
On bookish Avenida Corrientes, Hernández has fed Buenos Aires' famous reading habit for decades — Argentine letters, imports and midnight browsers. A porteño institution.
Founded in Palermo Viejo in 2004, Libros del Pasaje is an independent Buenos Aires bookshop pairing national, independent and imported titles with launches, talks, exhibitions and children’s programming in a high-ceilinged house.
Best for Independent books, imported editions and literary events in Palermo
Manifesto Design Store sells furniture including bookcases, dressers, TV units, shelving, chairs, tables and lighting. It carries brands such as Emu, Et-al, Haworth, Kartell and Nanimarquina, and stocks pieces by designers including Le Corbusier and Charles & Ray Eames.
microgaleria is a gallery shop that sells contemporary artwork, photography, books, fanzines and letterpress posters. The site lists work by named artists under artwork and photography, and a separate section for letterpress posters.
Best for Contemporary prints, photography, books, fanzines and letterpress posters
Beyond commissioned work, RAMA also teaches: its site lists courses and workshops through which the studio passes on binding technique directly, a common structure among the artisanal bookbinding scene documented across Buenos Aires (alongside contemporaries such as Casa Taller in Palermo Soho and Tinta al Tiempo in Monserrat). RAMA maintains an active portfolio and presence across Facebook, Behance, Instagram and LinkedIn, consistent with a working studio that takes ongoing client commissions rather than a one-off maker's page.
What is not established from the site itself is a named founder or a first-person history beyond the operating-since date — the About material available is functional rather than narrative. On the facts that are verifiable — a dedicated bindery, fifteen years of continuous operation, a real service menu spanning books, boxes and finishing — RAMA is a legitimate, currently operating hand bindery, not a general stationery seller with binding as a sideline.
Tienda Malba is the design and gift shop of Buenos Aires's Museum of Latin American Art, located at Av. Figueroa Alcorta 3415 and selling books, jewelry, prints, and objects developed with Argentine and Latin American designers. Its bilingual online store ships prints and publications tied to exhibitions like Pop Brazil alongside the museum's permanent collection.
Shelves now fill a former theatre whose boxes, ceiling frescoes and stage remain visible. The old stage functions as a café, so browsers can pause without leaving the auditorium-like interior.
Best for Books, music and café service inside the former theatre
Eterna Cadencia pairs an independent bookstore of more than 40,000 fiction and essay titles with its own publishing house on Palermo's Honduras street. A café, Bar Eterno, and a literary blog extend the shop into a gathering place for Buenos Aires readers and writers.
Best for Literary fiction and essays, Argentine publishing