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Aldo Fefè
Started by the owner's father in 1932, this tiny arched workshop produces beautifully hand-painted paper. Products include wrapping paper, little chests of drawers, writing paper, picture frames and photo albums, among other things.
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Alinari
This is the oldest photographic business in the world. The Florentine Alinari brothers founded their enterprise in 1852, and produced more than one million plate-glass negatives in their lifetime. Here you can buy beautiful prints of their work depicting Rome in the 19th century, as well as some meaty coffee table books on photography.
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Animalier e Oltre
Like the attic of an eccentric, bohemian, aristocratic family, this shop is full of bric-a-brac, curios, antiques and furniture. Wrought-iron furniture and leather sofas sit alongside a mammoth selection of animal-shaped antiques - obviously one family member had an obsessive streak - that includes reproductions of 19th-century French animalier sculptures.
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Bassetti Tessuti
Hidden away in a run-of-the-mill palazzo (palace), Bassetti Tessuti is a sprawling, technicolour temple to textiles. From fine Italian wools and silks, to cheetah-print faux fur, a jaw-dropping 200,000 fabrics line its endless sea of soaring, cracked rooms. Brothers Emidio and Lorenzo Bassetti set up shop in 1954, serving everyone from couture royalty to needle-savvy homemakers.
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Borgo Parioli Market
Parioli is Rome's most expensive residential area and its weekend market is a hot date on the capital's monthly shopping calendar. Among the often-expensive bric-a-brac you'll find original jewellery and accessories from the 1950s onwards, silverware, paintings, antique lamps and old gramophones.
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Casali
Via dei Coronari's shops mostly specialise in antique furniture or marble, but Casali deals in antique prints, many delicately hand-coloured. The shop is small, but the choice is not, ranging from 16th-century botanical manuscripts to around €3 postcard prints of Rome.
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Comics Bazar
Not a comic in sight - rather, this attic-like treasure-trove is crammed to its rafters with expensive antiques. Wade through the lamps that hang everywhere like jungle creepers and you'll find furniture dating from the 19th century to the 1940s, including a large selection of Viennese furniture by Thonet. It's difficult to spot the shop assistant among it all.
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I Vetri Di Passagrilli Glassware
Domenico Passagrilli has had his workshop for more than 25 years, specialising in fusion glassware - creating beautiful artworks through heating glass and moulds in a kiln. Each of the organic-seeming pieces - plates, lamps, tiles and window panes - is unique, and he also restores stained glass.
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Le Terre Di At
Local ceramicist Angela Torcivia has a knack with the wheel, spinning out stunning minimalist pieces such as richly hued bijoux and bottle-stoppers, and smoky Raku (Japanese pottery) lamps and bowls.
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Lumieres
Cut a swathe through the metallic stalks that have all but taken over this delightfully unpretentious shop and you'll discover a large collection of antique lamps. Styles range from Art Nouveau and Art Deco to 1950s.
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Mercato delle Stampe
The Mercato delle Stampe (Print Market) is well worth a look if you're a fan of vintage books and old prints. Browse the permanent stalls and among the tired posters and dusty back editions you might turn up some interesting music scores, architectural engravings or chromolithographs of Rome.
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Mondo Pop
For Gen-X/Y pop freaks who have it all. This new gallery-cum-shop stocks a rotating selection of products designed by cultish street artists such as Massimo Caccia, Cesko and MTV's Jeremyville - from pop-print T-shirts and poufs, to art toys and 'where-did-you-get-that?' bags.
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My Cup Of Tea
In a hard-to-find converted artist's studio (walk through the main entrance and ring the bell at the courtyard door), this self-dubbed 'creative incubator' showcases the work of emerging artists and fashion designers (with an emphasis on women's and children's fashion). Past stock includes felt jewellery from Italo-Brit Biondo, and kitschy celebrity portraits by Daniele Cima.
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Nardecchia
The enchanting antique prints sold at Nardecchia, a venerable institution on Piazza Navona, range from expensive 18th-century etchings of Rome by Giovanni Battista Piranesi to more affordable 19th-century panoramas.
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Officina della Carta
A tiny workshop producing attractive hand-painted paper-bound boxes, photo albums, recipe books, notepads, photo frames and diaries - all of which make terrific gifts. It also has a selection of better-than-average postcards.
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Pandora
Truly a box of a shop, this has a twisted-glass-framed doorway on Trastevere's main piazza and sells a mix of ceramics, Murano glassware, African masks and handcrafted jewellery.
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