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Architectura & Natura
This charming canalside shop has art, architecture, design, landscape and coffee-table books. Upstairs, Architectuurantiquariat Opbouw (Architecture Antique Shop; 638 70 18) has a selection of its namesake.
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Blond
Actual blondes Femque and Janneke glaze plates and dishes in designs that are hilarious, adorable and very colourful: ladies lunching, beach scenes, chocolates, and cheeses. You can custom order as well.
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Boekie Woekie
While other shops handle art books, here they sell books as art, created by artists specifically for this medium. Some tell stories (elegantly illustrated, naturally), others are riffs on graphic motifs; you may want to browse for a long time.
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Decorativa
One of the city's most atmospheric antique stores, Decorativa is so cluttered with candelabra, costumes and crystal chandeliers, that it's eccentric owner has put the paintings on the ceiling - look up!
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Eduard Kramer
Kramer is way too cute and kooky to consider itself a serious antiques store - they leave that to the street's more sober dealers. Crammed to bursting, with enough nooks and crannies to keep you browsing for hours, this family-run business specialises in antique Dutch wall and floor tiles and wonderful Dutch vintage homewares.
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Eh Ariëns Kappers
This pretty gallery stocks original prints, etchings, engravings, lithographs, maps from the 15th to 20th centuries, and Japanese woodblock prints.
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Galerie Lambiek
Possibly the world's oldest comic store, Lambiek has been in operation since 1968 and stocks an impressive range of underground comics, newspaper strips, web comics and even erotic comics, along with classics such as Tintin and Asterix.
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Galleria D'arte Rinascimento
This pretty shop sells Royal Delftware ceramics (both antique and new), all manner of vases, platters, brooches, Christmas ornaments and interesting 19th-century wall tiles and plaques.
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Hana Zuki
Local designers started this funky boutique-come-studio as a showcase for their creations and those of their friends. Check out Hana Zuki's own graphic fashion, hip Aiko label, and edgy Phatoak by Dutch Natasja van den Elzen, along with illustrations, magazines, Lomos, and Maomaland's handmade toys.
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Herman Brood Galerie
This gallery is dedicated to Herman Brood, Amsterdam's legendary rocker and club promoter (1946-2001) who shone brightly before crashing big-time on drugs and alcohol. His oil paintings are upstairs from the busy Café Dante.
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Hug Gallery For International Photography
Small but important gallery that attracts some of the top names, especially from Britain. It's one of the few galleries that partners with photography museums like Huis Marseille and FOAM .
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Jaski
This large, commercial gallery sells paintings, prints, ceramics and sculptures by some of the most famous members of the CoBrA movement, European avant-garde movement active from 1949 to 1952.
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Josine Bokhoven
Across the canal from the Anne Frank Huis, this friendly gallery features contemporary art and the work of emerging young artists, including German artist Ralph Fleck.
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Klein Antiek
Tiles from tip to toe, including Delft blue, as well as Dutch pottery, some going back to medieval times. Don't expect great bargains (broken pieces sell from around €25 ), but it's a lovely place to shop.
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Kleurgamma
In this minimalist space you may find the work of some nearby photographers on the walls, or have your own prints processed. You'll feel better knowing that the Rijks and Van Gogh Museums get theirs done here too.
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Lairesse Apotheek
Both pharmacy and installation art, with graphics of the periodic table filling the entrance and a rotunda of green backlit cases inside.
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Lieve Hemel
You will find magnificent contemporary Dutch realist painting and sculpture at this smart gallery. It handles Dutch painters Ben Snijders and Theo Voorzaat, and astounding, lifelike representations of clothing - hewn from wood! - by Italian Livio de Marchi.
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Mendo
The Mendo ad agency has opened this smart, black-walled gallery specialising in young Dutch painters. Works range from bright to disturbing-but-alluring. It also sells an intriguing selection of art, design, architecture and photography books.
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Nic Nic
A trip here is like a visit to a gallery of 20th-century design. Cramped shelves take you from Art Deco to Bauhaus, googie, the '70s, The Simpsons and heaven knows what else.
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Reflex Modern Art Gallery
This prominent gallery, opposite the Rijksmuseum, is filled with contemporary art and photography, including works by CoBrA members and members of the Nouveau Réaliste movement.
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Reflex New Art Gallery
This new branch specialising in new art is across the street from the original Reflex. There's an emphasis on photography, and artists include young up-and-comers like David La Chapelle, Robin Lowe, Roger Ballen, Larry Sultan and Nobuyoshi Araki.
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Rock Archive
The whites are white, and the blacks are black at this professional shop of limited-edition rock 'n' roll prints. Robert Plant, Debbie Harry, Sting and tons of others are all there to be had for small change, in a format of your impeccable choice.
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Torch Gallery
Torch, one of Amsterdam's most cutting-edge galleries, is proud of its diverse selection. Around a dozen shows per year include photography and new media from many countries, and occasional painting and sculpture, from artists like Anton Corbijn (whose coverage of U2 was famous) and Annie Sprinkle.
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Typo Gallery
A peek inside the artistic mind of Ewald Spieker, who creates graphic art out of typography. He's been exhibited all over and published books of his work. Just a few of his works are for sale; the red 'YES' made of stacks of cardboard had our name written all over it.
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