Top 10 Antiques Shops
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1. Antica Cappelleria Troncarelli
Don’t be fooled by the tiny size of this shop – it is still one of the best haberdashers in Rome, established in 1857.
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2. Ai Monasteri
Monasteries from all across Italy supply their homemade honey, liqueurs, beauty products, elixirs and other products to this shop.
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3. Antiqua Domus
Bring some of Rome’s elegance into your own home. This sizeable showroom has mostly 18th- and 19th-century furnishings on sale; some nice Empire pieces are particularly worth a look.
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4. Gea Arte Antica
Own your own piece of ancient Rome. Choose from a range of objects, from simple oil lamps to exquisite painted vases.
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5. Massimo Maria Melis
This unique jewellery studio wraps 21-carat gold around coins, glass and stones preserved from the Etruscan, Roman and medieval eras.
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6. Galleria Il Colibri
Small but worthy gallery presenting group and solo shows of contemporary painters, as well as historic posters and other types of art media.
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7. Dott. Sergio de Sanctis
Exclusively Italian antiques, mostly elegant 18th- to early 20th-century furnishings and gilt-framed mirrors.
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8. L’Art Nouveau
Antiques shop devoted to Art Nouveau and Liberty style furnishings, lamps, objets d’art and chinoiserie silk tapestries and gowns.
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9. Calzoleria Petrocchi
Bruno Ridolfi keeps alive the high fashion, excellent quality, made-to-measure cobbler traditions of his uncle Tito Petrocchi, who regularly shod glamorous stars of stage and screen in the “dolce vita” heyday of the 1950s and 1960s.
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10. Nardecchia
Prints, old photographs and watercolours are on sale here, from Piranesi originals to 20th-century works.
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