It was a short walk from our hotel to the cemetery so we were able to walk by it many times. If your ever in Buenos Aires its a must see.
Another important part of Argentina's culture is silversmiths. We were able to visit the oldest neighborhood in in Buenos Aires, San Telmo. We visited both the famous Antiques Sunday Market with over 200 venders selling all sorts of goods, mostly antiques. We also visited one of the creators of many of these antiques, the Pallarols family, one of the oldest silversmith families out there. They have had silversmiths in their family since the 1700's in Barcelona. Many of their clients have been very influential people including the current president of Argentina.
It was super cool seeing the amount of work that they put into each piece. It's amazing how many man hours it takes to create such small pieces of art.
The part I loved the most was how organized the shop was. The tools and everything were lined up perfectly. I love well organized things, and this extremely old building and business really inspired me. It would be pretty hard to stay so organized after hundreds of years of being in business. I hope that I have a shop one day that is as well organized as this silversmiths home.
For some weird reason, I love tools. I love crafts, ribbons, wrapping paper, paper, boxes, screw drivers, drills, saws, etc. Anything that can help you create something new, I love, and sort of collect. I would love to have a room one day that is for creating new things, where I could have everything super well organized and nicely designed. Its funny the places that you find inspiration for design.
We were also given a chance to try our hand at the work they do. It takes some major talent to design something from hammering into silver, one hammer to hard and it is ruined. It was fun learning more about a trade that I had never put much thought into.
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