July 18, 2008

Sweet Home Argentina

Estilo Argento Housewares

Although you have only a week of vacay each year, your apartment looks like you’re a professional jet-setter.

You comb every consignment store to score worldly treasures — Moroccan lanterns, Turkish rugs, Scandinavian chairs, Asian armories — to decorate your digs.

The only thing missing? Something from down South.

Lucky for you, Estilo Argento has arrived. The local company is owned by an Argentinean couple that imports 100 percent handmade wares from their homeland, so it matters not that you can’t get the time off to go there.

Their chic (yet totally affordable) offerings include alpaca platters with horn handles, cowhide boxes with leather stitching, onyx storage boxes, and alpaca horn and silver picture frames.

It’s enough to give armchair traveling a good name.

Available at Haven, 2416 Victory Park Lane (214-954-1515). To see styles, go to estiloargento.com.