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Mari's Collection at Las Pallas Shop and Gallery: Perfecto!

Courtyard at Las Pallas shop and gallery

3/22/10
After our lunch we returned to Las pallas (Click on that to read an interesting interview with the owner of the shop, a very interesting woman). This is an amazing (AND HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) handicraft store in Barranco that has an incredible collection of pre Colombian, colonial, and recent handicrafts of Peru. I first visited this shop during the Carnival in February but my photos of it were lost when my camera was stolen. Mari, the owner, has an beautiful shop and home. Her “Gallery” sitting room is connected to the shop and visitors are welcome to come in and see her collection. I would LOVE to have a room like this some day!  Mari was a great host and answered all of my questions about the various retablos in the store (most of which are made by members of the Jimenez family).

Las Pallas!

St. Appolonia Retablo

Jimenez retablos in Las Pallas

Retablos

Amazing carved gourd

Mari's Collection: So nice!

Mari's Collection: Ceramics

Mari's Peruvian Hairless dog.

Mari's Collection: Colonial painting and antiques

Mari's Collection: Gallery View

Mari's Collection: carved stone objects.

Renee hanging out in the Gallery

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Cathedral in Barranco

Main square in Barranco

After this we went to a retablo store on La Paz Street in Miraflores called Raices Peru which only sells retablos by members of the Jimenez family. Also we stopped into several antique shops where I took some photos.

Antique shop

Antique Shop

Antique Shop

Antique Shop

3/23/10

Lunch with Karina! Mostly spent the day preparing for my trip to Cuzco. I can’t believe I only have ONE MORE WEEK OF MY GELMAN LEFT!!!!!!!

Pushing Bricks in Miraflores