In the heart of San Nicolás, between Uruguay and Talcahuano, a block opens that seems suspended over time and connects the streets Bartolomé Miter with Juan Domingo Perón. It is about PASSAGE Dr. Rodolfo Rivarola, UNa Urban Rareness, an architectural jewel, a location widely used by the film industry where he finds an atmospheric magic to tell the most romantic stories. Its eight buildings, four on each side, were built between 1924 and 1926 by the architects Petersen, Thiele and Cruz, and present a perfect symmetry. What is seen on one side is repeated in the other: doors, windows, lanterns and even moldings. As if you walk inside a mirror.
This unique space in the cartography of the Buenos Aires microcenter took relevance in recent months because it was where many scenes of the series were filmed “Envious “. In it, the character of Griselda Sicilianihe lived next to Sushi’s premises Esteban Lamothe and many of his encounters and disagreements happened between those 100 meters in mirroly length.
However, this block of Buenos Aires not only retains the charm of the domes, the viewpoints and the calm offered by their little transit, but also keeps cultural secrets, such as shops, hidden coffees and, above all, one of the most unique libraries of the city: Printed Subject – Image Bookstorea pearl that in recent times took category of worship. A space where you can find books dedicated to plastic arts, culture, photography, architecture, fashion, theater and cinema, among all kinds of essays, stories, biographies and even international magazines.
In itself, its elegant and aesthetics stained invites you to stop the passage. For more than two decades, a printed issue is dedicated with a goldsmith accurately to an extinction item, that of the book as an art object. He was born in 1995 as a distributor specializing in books illustrated at the Banco Patricios Foundation and then was installed, successfully, in this passage as cinematic as intimate, already in 1997.
The bookstore is a visual art sanctuary. On their shelves, the most diverse titles of authors who are not usually in the most traditional libraries live. Among its shelves, distributed by theme, each book seems chosen with curator criteria. The central tables show news and oddities. Limited postcards and editions complete a proposal that is not exhausted in the editorial, since there is an atmosphere, an aura, which invites you to stay.
“Printed matter” He has also had a strong presence in fairs and museums. Participated with points of sale in the Carafffa Museum, the Recoleta Cultural Center, the Art Center Faenamong other spaces where art and book cross as a natural gesture. In addition, he developed his own editorial seal – printed editions – with daring and fundamental titles, and collaborates with other publishers such as Factotum, Interzona, Marea, the editor brand and the terrible brandediting from Argentine fiction to children’s books with rocker winks, as an enlightened edition of “The Ring of Captain Beto”. At the upper levels of their shelves, are the strangest books, such as a collection of the “History of French cinema” In their original or English language, “Great Hollywood Westerns“
In December 2023, within the framework of the Centenary of the Passage, the bookstore was an epicenter of a celebration that included a toast, music, readings and the presentation of “Art is at home“Mariela Ivanier’s book that collects 141 testimonies of women artists. The celebration, far from being an isolated fact, was a reflection of the role that this space in the Buenos Aires cultural scene, a meeting place, of thought, of shared beauty.
Over time, printed issue became a cultural pole within this urban enclave. The link with Café Rivarola and Women’s bookstoreright in front of Diagonal, reinforces the idea of community, books, coffee, talks and symmetrical architecture. Everything seems instead. Everything invites to return. Today, the Rivarola passage is not only a street, but an experience. The only perfectly symmetrical block of the city that became a refuge for readers, designers, photographers, artists and curious.
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