Shopping in Panama City

Parque Lefevre PH Plaza España, Panama City

Cutarrizate makes handmade cutarras and sandals in Panamá from genuine cowhide, including custom colour, model, sole and platform height. Original models are made entirely by hand in Panama with artisan-tanned cowhide. The shop is at Parque Lefevre, PH Plaza España, Panama City.

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Costa del Este Panama Design Center, Panama City

Diseñamos anillos de compromiso, aros de boda, joyas personalizadas y piezas únicas en oro 18K, con asesoría directa de Fabiola Bracho.

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El Cangrejo Calle Arturo D. Motta, Panama City

Galería Arteconsult is a Panama City gallery of Latin American and international contemporary art, founded in 1979 by Panamanian art historian Carmen Alemán. It presents painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper and graphic art, and offers museum-quality framing, appraisals, restoration and art handling.

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Panama City, Online

Panama's Museum of Contemporary Art runs a proper tienda online — editions, prints and objects from the isthmus's living artists.

Best for Panamanian contemporary art editions

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Vía Israel Plaza Sunset Strip, Panama City

Panama City jewelry studio designing custom wedding rings and other made-to-order pieces. Its process combines collaborative 3D visualization, precise manufacture and artisanal finishes, and it also restores jewelry with personal significance.

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Casco Viejo, Panama City

Reprosa casts Panama's pre-Columbian huacas — frogs, eagles, shamans — in silver and gold using the ancient lost-wax way, from workshops you can tour. The isthmus, wearable.

Best for Panama’s treasures cast in silver and gold

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Costa del Este, Panama City

Reprosa is a Panama City jewelry workshop that revives the pre-Hispanic lost-wax casting technique of ancient Panamanian goldsmiths. Pieces draw on native motifs like orchids and the Panama map, alongside handicrafts and artwork made in-house.

Best for Lost-wax cast jewelry with orchid and Panama-map motifs

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Panama City

The Butterfly Villa is a handbag brand specializing in leather and non-leather accessories, founded in Panama City in 2009 by designer Geniesse Pierre after she completed an MA in Handbags and Leather Goods at Domus Academy in Milan. The brand says its bags are 80 percent handmade.

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Panama City

Van Daelen Jewelry sells rings and necklaces as well as bracelets and earrings. The shop is at Plaza Nodo 54, local 6, on Calle 54 Este in the Marbella area of Panama City.

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Casco Viejo, Panama City

Victor's Panama Hats was created in 2009 by Victor Hernandez Sarmiento. It distributes hats nationally and internationally. The site lists Ecuador Panama hats, foldable Panama hats, straw hats and superfino hats among the styles it sells.

Best for Panama hats, including foldable and superfino styles

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