Vintage and high-end guitar dealer in Dubai's Al Quoz Courtyard, stocking rare guitars, amps and pedals alongside Custom Shop Fender and Gibson instruments; runs an in-house luthier workshop and guitar-building classes.
Best for Master-built guitars and boutique amplifiers
Art of Guitar operates out of The Courtyard, a converted warehouse arts complex on Street 6A in Al Quoz 1, Dubai's industrial gallery district. Founded to fill what The National described as a gap in the region's vintage and high-end guitar market, the shop combines retail with a working museum feel, mixing rare vintage instruments, amplifiers and effects pedals with modern Custom Shop and Masterbuilt models from Fender, Gibson and boutique brands like Rickenbacker. Staff describe over 150 years of combined experience sourcing and selling guitars. The store also functions as a small gallery, displaying guitar-related art, and runs guitar-building workshops led by in-house luthier Basil Azizoghly, alongside a published trade-in program for players looking to sell or swap instruments. Its Al Quoz setting places it among a cluster of galleries and independent studios in the district's warehouse spaces, distinct from Dubai's mall-based retail.
A warehouse shop buying and selling vintage, retro, antique, and pre-owned furniture, lighting, crockery, posters, clocks, and decorative objects. The business also repairs, restores, rents, and trades furniture. Established 2020.
Best for Vintage furniture, lighting, crockery, and clocks, with repair and restoration
Stick No Bills began in Galle Fort and now runs galleries there and in Dubai and Barcelona, selling authorised, museum-grade fine-art prints and vintage-style travel posters. Its Church Street gallery specialises in Ceylon and Sri Lankan destination imagery.
Best for Authorised Ceylon travel-poster art prints
Independent vinyl record shop opened in Dubai's Alserkal Avenue in May 2017 by DJ and producer Shadi Megallaa; stocks new and secondhand electronic, jazz, hip-hop, soul and reggae records and runs a DJ course on-site.
Best for Dubai vinyl, turntables and DJ releases
The Flip Side opened in May 2017 in Unit 71 of Alserkal Avenue, Dubai's converted-warehouse arts district in Al Quoz, founded by Egyptian DJ and producer Shadi Megallaa. Megallaa, who also runs the Ark to Ashes record label, had worked at a record shop in New York and opened the shop to fill a gap in vinyl retail in the UAE. The store stocks a genre span from electronic to jazz, hip-hop, rock, soul and reggae, mixing new pressings with used stock. Beyond retail, The Flip Side runs an 'Art of DJing' course and hosts in-store events.
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