Arte Étnico Argentino, Buenos Aires
Palermo Viejo
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Tel: 54 11 4832 0516
www.arteetnicoargentino.com
Concierge.com's insider take:
Leading light among a new wave of Argentine artisans inspired by the country's indigenous heritage, Ricardo Paz limits his materials to leather, wool, wood, and stone, the only natural resources available in northwest Argentina's remote montane forests. Using natural-fall hardwoods from the region's subtropical dry forest, Paz creates iconic items such as asymmetric dinner chairs of quebracho and untanned leather, it¿n-wood banquettes, and 12-foot coffee tables carved from 300-year-old algaroba trunks. Naively worked villagers' cupboards, window frames, and beds, discarded by their unnamed creators but held up by Paz as works of art, sit alongside traditionally woven textiles inspired by Andean and Amazon tribal heritage.
Open Mondays through Saturdays 11 am to 7 pm.