This morning I wrote about FONART, the chain of government sponsored shops selling high quality handicrafts. This afternoon I took a long walk in Chapultepec Park, and I discovered that another FONART store recently opened in the park, close to "Los Pinos", the former Presidential compound that has been turned into a cultural center. Of course, I had to take a look inside.
A mural at the entrance portrays artisans at work creating their crafts.
The store is nice and has many beautiful items, but I still prefer the store close to my apartment.
There were a couple of large clay figures of jaguars similar to the one I saw at the other store.
I managed to see the price tag on one of them. It can be yours for around 18,000 pesos... a little over 1000 U.S. dollars.
I visited this branch on my trip last spring. Found some handicrafts, but the prices were not so lovely.
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Granted, the prices are not cheap, but much of what is here is considered to be museum quality folk art. Plus, as I said previously, the artisans are getting a fair price for their work. If you were to go to a gallery in the U.S., you would pay an even higher price.
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