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Cuenca (Isabel La Católica y Av. de las Américas)
A Cuenca ceramics house at Isabel La Católica 1-102 and Avenida de las Américas producing hand-finished dinnerware in lines such as Organics, Monteturi, Vega and Fiesta, plus a children's Baby Artesa range. The workshop takes personalised custom table-setting commissions and ships nationally across Ecuador.
Best for Handmade Andean-designed dinnerware and custom table settings
Cuenca
Colibri Diseno de Objetos, founded 18 years ago by ceramic master and designer Cristina Urgiles, born in Cuenca in 1973, makes enamel-glazed ceramic pieces at Av. Pumapungo 3-60 y Paseo de los Canaris in Cuenca. Its lines include Candelabros, Contempo, Cruz and Magneto, among them ceramic and wooden key holders shaped like owls and dandelions.
Best for Enamel-glazed ceramic design pieces
Tumbaco, Quito
Barroquema, in Tumbaco near Quito, has run high-temperature artistic ceramics experimentation, creation and training since the early 1980s, offering artistic, utilitarian and decorative pieces alongside firing services and technical consultation. Its current "Obsidiana" exhibition, part of a residency program, includes three numbered pieces, with team members Marco, Juana, Sofia and Elisa listed on the site.
Best for High-temperature artistic ceramics
Quito
Casa Kiki is a Quito pop-up collective bringing Ecuadorian fashion, jewelry, ceramics and skincare together in one multibrand setting. Established in 2013.
Best for A pop-up collective of Ecuadorian fashion, jewelry, ceramics, and skincare since 2013
Quito
Villa Fauna is a Quito collective shop and gallery for ceramics, clothing and prints.
Best for A collective shop and gallery for ceramics, clothing, and prints
Turi
The gallery-workshop of Eduardo Vega, one of Latin America's best-known ceramic muralists, works from the Turi hillside above Cuenca producing hand-glazed tiles, tableware and relief murals. Recurring motifs include native birds, heritage houses and Andean plants, rendered in the vivid palette that carried his public murals.
Best for Hand-glazed art ceramics, tiles and murals
Avenida Charles Darwin, Puerto Ayora, Santa Cruz
Samay Latin Art, on Avenida Charles Darwin in Puerto Ayora, opened in 2001 as Galeria Aymara and relaunched as Samay (Quechua for spirit) in 2020. It sells tagua carvings by the Wounaan Tribe, Maximo Laura tapestries, ceramics and woven hats.
Best for Samay Latin Art, on Avenida Charles Darwin in Puerto Ayora
Samay Latin Art traces back to 2001, when owners Paola and Martin opened Galería Aymara on Puerto Ayora's Avenida Charles Darwin, selling jewelry and Latin American art. After running under that name for close to two decades, they closed it in 2020 and relaunched as Samay — Quechua for spirit or soul — describing the new identity as a fusion of ancestral and contemporary Latin American art rather than a straight continuation of the old shop.
The gallery now works with roughly a dozen regional and emerging artists across a spread of mediums: tagua-nut carvings by the Wounaan Tribe, woven tapestries by Peruvian textile artist Maximo Laura, handwoven Baronesa hats, ceramic pieces, sculpture in various styles, and copper-plate engravings and mechanical sculptures. That range moves the shop well past a jewelry-and-souvenir stand — it functions as a small survey of Ecuadorian and wider Latin American craft, anchored by named makers rather than anonymous stock. For visitors passing through Puerto Ayora, it's a chance to buy work traceable to a specific artist or community, from a gallery that has operated on the same street under two names across more than two decades.
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