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Uruguayan handmade-jewelry studio producing rings, necklaces, earrings and bracelets in 925 silver, alpaca and bronze, with leather, horn, nautical cord and gemstones also used across its pieces.
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Visit official site ↗Palermo, Montevideo
Aprendé técnicas básicas de joyería y realizá un anillo de plata 925 con gema natural en nuestro taller presencial en Palermo. ¡Inscribite ahora!
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Babilonia Libros sells new and used books from its Montevideo storefront, spanning classics and bestsellers. The shop keeps a notable stock of art books and collector's editions.
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Carpintería de diseño en Montevideo. Cocinas, placares, muebles de oficina y baños a medida. Proyectos integrales para edificios, empresas y hogares. Presupuesto sin cargo.
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Visit official site ↗Punta Carretas, Montevideo
Carola was founded by designer Caro Peter, who began making made-to-measure party dresses after studying fashion design in 2010. The brand makes all of its products in Uruguay, from design and pattern-making to cutting and sewing, and sells from its store at 21 de Setiembre 2714 in Punta Carretas, Montevideo.
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Visit official site ↗Parque Batlle, Montevideo
Montevideo visual artist Carolina De Cunto applies hand-painted art to leather footwear, bags, clothing and accessories. Her pieces are designed and made in Uruguay, combining wearable leatherwork with original painted surfaces.
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Visit official site ↗Parque Batlle, Montevideo
Especializados en diseño de muebles y mobiliario a medida, integrando calidad, durabilidad y soluciones para a cada ambiente en Montevideo.
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Visit official site ↗Buceo, Montevideo
Efficio is a workshop making everyday goods by hand from vegetable-tanned cowhide in the Uruguayan leather tradition: mate sets, asado and wine pieces, and bags, portfolios and small leather goods, produced in small personalized runs.
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Visit official site ↗Cordón
Escaramuza is a bookstore-café in Montevideo's Cordón neighborhood, open daily except Sunday. Alongside new releases it stocks vinyl records and gourmet pantry goods, and publishes its own culture magazine, Intervalo.
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Escaramuza runs as a hybrid bookstore and café at the corner of Pablo de María and Charrúa in Montevideo's Cordón neighborhood, open Monday through Saturday from 9am to 9pm. Its catalog splits across categories that go beyond a typical general bookshop: literary fiction, social science, gastronomy, gender studies, children's and young-adult titles, poetry, comics and manga, and a curated vinyl record section under 'Discos y vinilos.' A pantry line, Alacena, sells specialty coffee, oils and honeys, teas, and juices alongside the books, positioning the shop as a place to browse and eat rather than pass through quickly. Beyond retail, Escaramuza runs a full program of Talleres, workshops spanning children's and teen writing, illustration, literary analysis, languages, and ongoing reading clubs, plus an events calendar covering author talks and cultural programming around Montevideo. The shop also publishes Revista Intervalo, an in-house culture magazine covering book reviews, translation, columns, a podcast, and video content, extending its identity from retailer to independent publisher. A forthcoming 'Escuela de Formación Librera,' a bookseller training school, is set to begin its first modules later this year, another sign the shop positions itself as an institution for the local book trade rather than a single storefront.
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Joyas únicas de plata 925 hechas a mano en Uruguay. Diseños con alma y estilo propio, creados para mujeres que buscan piezas auténticas para brillar todos los días.
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Visit official site ↗Buceo, Montevideo
Uruguayan gallery exhibiting and selling contemporary Uruguayan art for 42 years. Its collection also includes major national and Latin American painters, shown in year-round spaces in Montevideo's Puerto del Buceo and La Barra, Maldonado.
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De estética despojada y minimalista, la propuesta de INES OTT incluye zapatos y accesorios de estilo clásico, confeccionadas artesanalmente en cuero en Uruguay.
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Visit official site ↗Pocitos, Montevideo
Isadora Libros: gran catálogo de novedades y papelería creativa. Compra online fácil, envíos rápidos a Uruguay e internacionales.
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Visit official site ↗Montevideo
Somos un taller de joyería artesanal ubicado en Uruguay. Creamos piezas únicas en plata y oro, bombillas y mates personalizados.
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Visit official site ↗Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo
La Pasionaria has its atelier at Reconquista 587 in the Ciudad Vieja of Montevideo. The site places it at the corner of Juan Carlos Gómez, a short walk from the Teatro Solís.
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Visit official site ↗Montevideo / Uruguay
True loose-leaf tea, distinct from Uruguay's mate culture, from the Pocitos shop that introduced the format to Montevideo in 2010.
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Mónica Rodríguez opened La Tienda del Té on Roque Graseras street in Montevideo's Pocitos neighborhood in 2010, describing a slow start in a country with no real precedent for the format: "la gente no tenía ni idea de lo que era una tienda de té" — people had no idea what a tea shop even was — and it took months before customers were willing to walk in at all. The business bills itself as Uruguay's first specialized tea shop.
Rodríguez's team responded to that early hesitation with a specific fix: small 25-gram tea packages sized to let a skeptical first-time customer try a tea without committing to a full tin, a format Rodríguez has described as something she hadn't seen offered elsewhere. The early customer base skewed toward young Uruguayans who had encountered specialty tea abroad and were looking for it back home — a demographic the shop has kept targeting since. Rodríguez has since pursued formal tea sommelier and tea-master training, with the shop's growth accompanied by further tea-sommelier and tea-master study.
Fifteen years on, in a country where mate is the default hot drink, La Tienda del Té has grown from that one uncertain Pocitos storefront to three locations, including counters inside Montevideo's Mercado Agrícola and the Arocena mall — still selling true tea, deliberately distinct from Uruguay's mate culture, to a market that had to be introduced to the idea from scratch.
Visit official site ↗Centro
Puro Verso is an independent Montevideo bookshop in a historic central building. Its Instagram profile is the available first-party source for current releases, events, opening hours and the confirmed address.
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Pocitos, Montevideo
Libros de la Arena ships books throughout Uruguay and internationally. The shop states it offers all books, every day of the year.
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Visit official site ↗Prado, Montevideo
Tienda de regalos personalizados! Arte en mates y objetos utilitarios pintados a mano, creados especialmente para ti.
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Visit official site ↗Manos del Uruguay
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Since 1968, Manos del Uruguay has organized rural artisan cooperatives producing hand-dyed and hand-knitted wool goods. The fair-trade organization is owned by the women who make its yarns and knitwear, linking craft purchases directly to the cooperative network.
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Visit official site ↗Montevideo
Uruguayan conscious-fashion label making timeless clothing in Uruguay with slow-fashion principles. Its pieces combine elegance and sustainability and are designed for durability, versatility and function.
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Visit official site ↗Unión, Montevideo
Matebom has made mates and bombillas in the same family workshop in Uruguay since 1973. It uses natural calabash gourds from the north of the country. An Italian immigrant who arrived in Uruguay at fourteen started the house after taking to mate.
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Uruguayan mateware studio rooted in the shared mate ritual. It works with local artisans on personalized pieces, combining innovation in design with traditional craft techniques.
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Visit official site ↗Montevideo
Menini Nicola is a Montevideo industrial-design studio founded in 2008 by Agustín Menini and Carlo Nicola. It designs objects and interiors, and licenses designs in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. The studio has shown at design fairs in Brazil, London and Milan.
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Visit official site ↗Centro
Mercado de los Artesanos is a cooperative Montevideo market for work by Uruguayan makers. It is a multi-vendor destination, so individual artisans should not be treated as one merchant inventory.
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Morley makes durable Uruguayan mates and mate bags, supporting local production and artisans.
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Visit official site ↗Montevideo
MUAR diseño is a Montevideo design studio founded in 2011 by Federico Mujica Iturria and Carolina Arias Bianchi, offering interior, furniture and design consulting built on contemporary design with simple lines and fine materials. Its Cúbica bathroom accessories won first prize at Salão Design Brazil in 2016, and the studio has exhibited at the London Design Fair, Designjunction and the International Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York.
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Visit official site ↗Paso Carrasco, Montevideo
Mutma is a Montevideo clothing shop selling shoes, garments and accessories, including denim, dresses, shirts, coats, children's clothes and a vintage-picks section. Its site describes the line as colourful and bold, and aimed at everyday wear with comfort and a degree of polish.
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Visit official site ↗Punta Carretas, Montevideo
Uruguayan leather brand founded in 1994 by Rosario Bordes. Made in Uruguay from natural leather, its range spans jackets, coats, shoes, handbags, bags and accessories, with wool, cotton and linen also incorporated into its collections over time.
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Visit official site ↗Pocitos, Montevideo
Located at Av. Brasil 2561 corner Brito del Pino in Montevideo, this shop sells books, DVDs and vinyl records and is open Monday to Friday 9am to 12pm and 3 to 8pm, and Saturdays 10am to 2pm. It also hosts literary workshops, seminars and author events.
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Visit official site ↗Montevideo / Uruguay / Online
A Montevideo bookshop known for its wide selection of books and stationery. Titles can be browsed in the shop or bought through its online store.
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Visit official site ↗Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo
Located at Cerrito 506 in Montevideo, this gallery sells works by contemporary artists with worldwide shipping and financing in up to 10 interest-free installments. It also offers limited-edition art reproductions with accompanying certificates, priced from 1,490 pesos.
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Visit official site ↗Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo
This Montevideo shop sells clothing, shoes, denim and accessories from its location at Dr Gabriel Otero 6590. It is open Monday to Friday from 10am to 4pm and can be reached by phone or email for questions.
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Visit official site ↗Prado, Montevideo
Uruguayan family studio founded in 2013, making natural-leather bags, shoes and accessories in its own workshop from local materials. Its five-person team comprises three workshop makers and two people handling sales and administration, with each piece produced individually by hand.
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Visit official site ↗Lagomar, Montevideo
Takun says all its garments are designed and made by women in Uruguay, operating from a workshop in Lagomar, Montevideo. It offers custom tailoring and sizing consultations, with home delivery or pickup at its central Montevideo location or the Lagomar workshop.
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Visit official site ↗Pocitos, Montevideo
Taller Aescala in Montevideo makes individual leather sculptures. The shop has worked since 1978 and lists series of Quijotes, carnival figures, fauna and characters in sole leather. The workshop is on 20 de Setiembre and invites visits.
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