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Bywater Art Market
A good place to seek out original works of art at reasonable prices. The number of local artists on hand ranges from 50 to 120, with some of the city's finest artists setting up shop next to unheralded folk artists. Rest assured, the artists are juried in, so none of the works offered here are by your Uncle Rufus' dog Elroy. No prints are sold.
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Christopher's Discoveries
Time spent in here might inspire you to rethink the layout of your pad back home. The shop has a loosely connected inventory that can only be attributed to the owner's cool sensibilities. Two large rooms in an old converted house are filled with choice artefacts, paintings, groovy lamps and exotic art (mostly of olive-skinned women) from Asia and the Middle East.
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Collectible Antiques
Some people love this sort of place simply because the possibilities seem limitless. You never know what you'll find between the piles of old furniture stacked along the walls of this large, garage-like emporium of tantalizing junk. Perhaps you collect old photographic portraits from long defunct studios, the subjects looking dapper or frilly or severe in their Victorian finery.
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David's
Squeezed in amongst the numerous antique stores and clothing boutiques along lower Decatur is this small rummage shop is filled with found objects, collectibles, funky lamps, swanky duds, bar accoutrements, jewelry and other odds and ends. Worth checking out.
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Dr Bob's Studio
Self-taught folk artist Dr Bob is a fixture in the Bywater, and you're sure to recognize his signature work - the 'Be Nice or Leave' signs that appear in restaurants and bars around town. Dr Bob's work also turns up in the House of Blues and museums throughout the South. In addition to the signs, he's known for his alligator carvings and sculptures of assembled found objects.
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Electric Ladyland
New Orleans is an old port filled with bars, right? It follows that a tattoo is just about the coolest souvenir you can get here. Strolling Decatur St day or night you'll spot people whose florid and lurid body art indicates business is not at all bad here at Electric Ladyland. It's a clean, brightly lit spot where young tattoo artists can set you up with a classic set of dice ('born to lose'), a growling wolf or a naked woman sashaying beneath a coconut palm. Customized designs can be arranged.
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James H Cohen & Sons
From the sidewalk windows, you might be inclined to pass this one by if you're not interested in guns. To be sure, Cohen & Sons does sell antique guns for people who like to play cowboys and Indians with authentic hardware. The choice of firearms here includes some remarkable specimens of flintlocks, colts, Winchester '73s and even a French musket or two. Suitable for that manly room in the house where Grandpa likes to drink his sherry.
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Johnny Donnels
The gallery of a fine local photographer, whose work turns up in galleries, museums and publications across the country. The collection is anchored by some touchingly beautiful shots of the French Quarter, as well as revealing portraits of musicians and people in New Orleans. Donnels has a fine eye, and he's been shooting New Orleans for years.
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Le Garage
Got to admit, we liked the name better when it was simply 'The Garage.' But why quibble over a little ironic Frenchness? The place is still a garage loaded with interesting stuff to paw through. Items for sale here include odd items of clothing, hats, army surplus, curtains, yellowed poll balls, tattered Mardi Gras costumes from yesteryear, knitted Coors can caps, furniture and oodles and oodles of objets d'arts to ogle, or even buy. Treasures galore, we tell you. Dive in.
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Lucullus
Take a peek in the window of this shop and you'll see a battery of ancient copper pots that appear to have generations of dents tinkered out of their bottoms. Owner Patrick Dunne is an advocate of using, not merely collecting, culinary antiques, and that's what his shop specializes in. Follow his advice and add more ritual and elegance to your life with an antique café au lait bowl, or an absinthe spoon for creating your evening cocktails.
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Magazine Antique Mall
Hard-core rummagers are likely to score items of interest in the dozen or so stalls here, where independent dealers peddle an intriguing and varied range of antique bric-a-brac. Bargain hunters aren't likely to have much luck, though.
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Marie Laveau's House Of Voodoo
Choose your pick of potions and browse the selection of books on the occult. Shipping is available.
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Moss Antiques
Watch your head when you enter this gallery of low-hanging chandeliers. Oof! Too late! Moss is a Royal St institution in the local antiques trade. Only the finest quality antiques and objets d'art are sold here. You'll find the perfect thing for your Garden District mansion. Or perhaps you can take home the busted chandelier they made you pay for.
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Ms Rau Antiques
With a massive 30,000 foot showroom (you'd never know it by passing by on Royal St), and after nearly a century of doing business, MS Rau ranks amongst New Orleans' most venerated dealers of antiques. It's a little over-serious - these are the sorts of frosty antiques that require their own insurance policies - but it's a family business and the professional salespeople are quite approachable. And for that very special trinket for that once-in-a-lifetime occasion this is a pretty good bet.
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New Orleans Art Supply
If you're one who likes to sketch while traveling, as a growing number of people do, here's a good place to go for a fresh supply of pencils and pads. Surprisingly, it's the most central art store in New Orleans, and it's not a bad one. The selection isn't huge, but it's of high quality. The shop is an annex of the New Orleans Conservation Guild.
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Photo Works
A polished showroom for the accomplished photographer Louis Sahuc (pronounced SIGH-ook), who has been shooting New Orleans for years and years. Sahuc's beautiful prints capture timeless images of the city. They are vantages of the city upon which even Hurricane Katrina failed to impose change.
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Quarter Past Time
This quiet little shop carries a selection of beautiful timekeepers. We didn't see any grandfather clocks, but they seemed to have everything else covered - wristwatches, pocket watches, wall-mounted clocks. Also, some nifty old radios of Jack Benny and the Brooklyn Dodgers vintage. You can buy, sell or trade, and if your watch ain't winding properly they'll fix it for you.
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Starling Books & Crafts
This place is about the serious side of the occult, lest we've gotten the idea the whole thing's been cooked up for our own amusement. This scholarly shop sells books concerning voodoo and the occult, and also has a few shelves of potions and voodoo dolls. The staff are knowledgeable, so fire away with questions if you're genuinely interested. Otherwise, walk on by.
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Stone And Press
Here's a cool shop for enthusiasts of fine-art mezzotints, lithographs, wood engravings and etchings by modern American artists. Mezzotints are clearly the emphasis here, and flipping through the huge collection (filed away in bins like records in a record store) is a good way to gain appreciation for a largely under-appreciated art form.
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The Centuries
OK, it's a little on the stodgy side, with its selection of 19th century lithographs and old maps. But wait. Flip through the inventory (all of it well organized by theme, date or locale) and you just might find yourself slowing down to look things over. It's like perusing a historical coffee table book, with no cheesy reproductions. Particularly interesting are the 'Civil War' and 'Black History' sections.
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