Ivy Forado

Ivy Forado is a sprawling pawn shop filled to the brim with items of various vintage and purposes. Most of the items seem to have some sort of utilitarian use, such as the various chairs, vases and cutlery. Some of the items, however, do their best to defy explanation.
There is a rough sense of order at Ivy Forado. One room seems to be largely composed of vases and cutlery. The middle room [containing the entrance] is for small crockery and decorative products. Then there’s one room for «miscellaneous» — from books to arcane objects that archaeologists in the future will speculate for years regarding their purpose.
Ivy Forado is a charming pawn shop and worth a browse. Also, be careful not to move too vigorously while in the shop — there are so many items in the shop that lots of them are precariously perched on the edges of shelves.

When I was little there was a kids’ TV programme in the UK called Finders Keepers. It involved teams of children frantically ransacking rooms in a house to find prizes. Ivy Forado reminds me of that show; it’s a mad little shop that looks like someone has been rummaging wildly through it with no regard to neatness or order. It’s packed with old furniture, and every single surface is crowded with curious odds and ends, with jewellery, bags and scarves hanging from everything they can be hung from, and framed pictures covering any free wall space. There’s definitely treasure to be found here, although it will take a thorough rummage to discover it.