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Manila
Family-run art supply retailer trading in Manila's University Belt since 1978, with additional branches across Metro Manila. Stocks paints, brushes, canvas, pigments and model-making materials (including Vallejo) for students, hobbyists and professionals.
Best for Art and model-making supplies in Manila's University Belt since 1978
Makati
Family-run Manila tailoring house rooted in a tradition the Arienza family has kept since the 1960s. Napoleon Arienza, trained at Brioni in Rome, opened the current Makati shop in 2012, working in Holland & Sherry cloth.
Best for Bespoke Manila suits and individual paper patterns
Tiño Suits & Tailoring traces its roots to a family tailoring tradition the Arienza family has run since the 1960s. Its present form centers on Napoleon Arienza, a tailor born in Tarlac who trained at the House of Brioni in Rome before returning to the Philippines to continue the family trade. In the 1990s, while working under the Brioni name, Arienza made a suit for Pierce Brosnan around the period the actor took on the role of James Bond — a commission still cited as a marker of the house's technical standing. Arienza opened the current Makati shop in 2012, at the Herco Center on Benavidez Street in Legazpi Village, stocking premium cloth including Holland & Sherry suiting from London. The shop positions itself as one of Manila's bespoke houses working in classic construction rather than made-to-measure production lines, continuing the hand-tailoring practice the family has kept since the shop's mid-century start.
Intramuros, Manila
A Filipino crafts showroom-gallery in Intramuros, Manila, established in 1966, dealing in handcrafted textiles, ceramics, antiques, folk art, and historical artifacts as part of a family-run export and retail business.
Best for Philippine craft and ethnographic objects in a long-running Intramuros gallery-shop
Silahis Arts and Artifacts has operated in Intramuros, the walled historic core of Manila, since 1966, making it one of the longer-running crafts businesses in the district. The company describes its own work as designing, producing, wholesaling, retailing and exporting handcrafted Philippine goods, a broader remit than a typical single-format shop. Its showroom at 744 General Luna Street functions partly as a gallery and partly as a museum-style display space, mixing historical Filipino artifacts and antiques with contemporary crafts: folk art, Asian ceramics, textiles, books, prints and sculpture are shown alongside newer handmade pieces. The stated purpose behind the business, per its own materials, is to build understanding of Philippine heritage through its crafts and material culture, positioning the shop as much as a cultural resource for visitors to Intramuros as a retail outlet. Independent travel and directory sources consistently describe it as a long-established fixture of the neighborhood rather than a recent addition.
Mandaluyong, Metro Manila
Satchmi sells new, vintage, and discounted vinyl in Manila alongside its own Motorino turntables, now in a fourth-generation MK4 model. Coffee is served alongside the records at this shop, operating as Satchmigroup Inc.
Best for New, vintage, and discounted vinyl paired with the shop's own Motorino turntables
Satchmi sells vinyl in Manila across three explicit categories — new, vintage, and discounted — plus a curated "Fresh Crate" selection for shoppers who want a vintage pull without digging through the full stock themselves. The company doesn't only resell turntables; it makes its own, under the Motorino name, currently on its fourth-generation model (MK4), and sells it alongside Rega turntables for shoppers who want an established outside brand instead. That in-house hardware line is the clearest distinguishing fact here — most record shops sell someone else's equipment, but Satchmi, operating as Satchmigroup Inc., designs and sells its own. Coffee runs alongside the records rather than as an afterthought menu item, though the site gives no specifics on beans or roasting beyond listing it as part of the offering. The company describes its own founding informally, saying it "was grown" rather than launched from a single idea — a shared passion for vintage objects and nostalgia that the current catalog, spanning new pressings to discounted overstock, still reflects. For a visitor, the practical pitch is a one-stop setup: pick a record from any of the three tiers, buy or upgrade to a Motorino turntable made by the shop itself, and get a coffee while flipping through the crates.
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