180º Shop has stood at Colima 180 in Roma Norte, Mexico City, since 2011. It works as a concept store and as a platform for Mexican designers. Clothing and footwear share the floor with furniture and art, and a jewellery case sits alongside. Ceramics, posters and books fill an objects section, and the shop sells online as well.
Best for Mexican fashion, jewellery and design objects at Colima 180, Roma Norte
180º Shop opened in 2011 on Colima in Roma Norte, Mexico City, with the stated aim of turning the mass consumption of fashion through 180 degrees. It runs as a concept store and as a platform for Mexican designers. The shop describes itself as a meeting point for different creative expressions, and as a base for the sustainable growth of a local and conscious creative industry.
The floor carries clothing for women and for men, with a children's range alongside. Footwear, accessories and furniture share the room with art pieces, most of them from Mexican labels. The jewellery case holds rings and necklaces alongside earrings and bracelets. Bags and scarves fill the accessory wall, and caps sit there with hats and glasses.
An art and objects section holds ceramics and posters, together with books and notebooks. The shop issues printed pieces of its own, among them a poster of Acapulco chairs and a notebook printed with a chair pattern. Labels stocked include VEJA, 1/8 Takamura, Sophie Simone, Mapoesie and Flensted. The house works with museums and with retailers in Mexico and abroad. Bernardo Lopez heads the business, and the shop sells online as well as at Colima 180.
Nuevo León 115, Condesa, Cuauhtémoc, 06140 Ciudad de México / Mexico City / Mexico
El Péndulo opened in Condesa in 1993 as a combined café and bookstore, incorporating records, art films, concerts, book presentations and literary courses from the outset.
Best for Books, records, art films and literary events in Condesa.
Córdoba 25, Roma Norte, Cuauhtémoc, 06700 Ciudad de México / Mexico City / Mexico
Founded in 2012 by Rafael Prieto and Jorge de la Garza, Casa Bosques is an independent Roma Norte bookshop focused on 20th- and 21st-century art publications, spanning photography, architecture, design, ceramics and culinary culture.
Best for Art books spanning photography, architecture, design and ceramics.
The Porrúa brothers opened beside the Zócalo in 1900 and built Mexico's bookselling and publishing dynasty — the Sepan Cuantos classics, shops across the country, and the famous glass bookstore in Chapultepec park.
Miguel Ángel de Quevedo 121, Chimalistac, Álvaro Obregón, 01050 Ciudad de México / Mexico City / Mexico
Librerías Gandhi Mauricio Achar traces the Gandhi bookshop to June 1971 on Miguel Ángel de Quevedo. Production is associated with Mexico, while the range centers on independent books, magazines and paper goods.
Best for Books from a shop founded in June 1971 on Miguel Ángel de Quevedo.
Tienda Museo Anahuacalli sits inside the Anahuacalli Museum at Museo 150 in Coyoacan, Mexico City, selling folk art, tote bags, and books about the volcanic-stone house Diego Rivera built to hold his collection. The shop keeps Tuesday-through-Sunday hours on site and also sells online.
Best for Folk-art, museum-store, books, accessories
MARCO's museum shop curates work from roughly 40 independent Mexican designers and artisans -- textiles, jewelry, ceramics, artisanal foods -- alongside exhibition catalogs and books. It operates as the retail arm of the contemporary art museum in Monterrey's Centro district, spotlighting local craft and design.
Best for Mexican designer goods, exhibition catalogues and museum-shop crafts
Handmade paper and hand-bound Maya-language books from Mexico's only Tzotzil Maya bookbinding collective, founded 1975.
Best for Handmade paper and hand-bound Maya-language books from Mexico's only Tzotzil
Taller Leñateros describes itself as "a contemporary editorial collective operated by Maya artists in Chiapas, Mexico." It was founded in 1975 by the poet Ámbar Past with the explicit goal of reviving Maya bookmaking, and it remains, by its own account, the first and only Tzotzil Maya bookbinding workshop in Mexico — a collective of largely women artisans, based in a colonial house in San Cristóbal de las Casas, who make paper by hand from recycled fiber and maguey (the same plant used for tequila and mezcal) and then print and bind it into finished books.
The workshop's best-known achievement is Incantations: Songs, Spells, and Images by Mayan Women, which the studio and independent accounts both describe as the first book written, illustrated, printed, and bound entirely by Maya people in over four hundred years — and the first of its kind published by Maya women specifically. The workshop's publications carry Tzotzil songs, poetry, and oral history into print in a language that had rarely if ever seen its own press before. In 2021, Mexico's Ministry of Culture awarded the taller its National Prize for Arts and Literature in the Popular Arts and Traditions category.
Beyond books, the shop's current catalogue runs to handmade notebooks, posters, photo albums and frames, woodcuts and engravings, postcards, and sheets of handmade paper sold on their own, all produced on-site by the same collective that keeps the bindery running.
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