About

Martin Melchor Angeles (L) and Coindo Melchor Gomez. 

Prices/Trading Currency

Prices, in the browser, are shown in Swiss Francs (CHF) and include tax (VAT) at 7.7%. For deliveries outside Switzerland the tax will be deducted during the order procedure. Your order will be completed in Swiss Francs, however, your account will be debited in your local currency at the prevailing exchange rate. Please use this link to make currency actual conversions, http://www.oanda.com/currency/converter/ .

 

As a guide (11.01.2018),

 

1 CHF = Euro 0.85

1 CHF = US Dollar 1.02

1 CHF = Pound Sterling 0.75

 

Payments and Security

We accept payment through Paypal, credit cards and prepayment through your bank. These options are indicated in the checkout. 

All credit/debit card transactions on this site are processed using WIRECARD, a secure online payment gateway that encrypts your card details in a secure host environment. To help ensure that your shopping experience is safe, simple and secure, OAXACAORIGINAL uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.

 

 

Return policy

We offer a 14 days return policy for the full value, however, return shipping costs are borne by the customer. Goods must be returned fully insured and in saleable, undamaged condition. For more details please go to Revocation.

 

Shipping Tracking Damages

For more information about shipping, tracking and damages, we ask you to refer to Shipping in the menu.

Unpacking Handling Care Safety

Information will be provided in each shipment about  subjects under this heading. In particular, we advise you to be attentive to young children playing with wood carvings with sharp details and small parts that could cause harm.

 

 

General Information

Oaxacaoriginal is about original pieces of traditional craftsmanship, from named artists living and working in the regions these crafts originate in. We began with woodcarving from Oaxaca and remain rooted there, but our interests go beyond the region. The collection now also includes Barro Policromado ceramics by the Castillo family of Izúcar de Matamoros, in Puebla.

We represent a small number of artisans whose work is individually significant and collectively diverse. With your help we can support them and encourage them in their work.

We also produce our own line of brooches, under the name Fíbulas. Some are designed by Studio OO and some by artisans we name, and each design is made in an edition of 35, each numbered.

In the store, browse All Wood Carvings, the ceramics of Marco Antonio Castillo, the Wearables, or search by individual artisan. 

 

 

Visit

If you live in Switzerland or are visiting then please make an appointment to see our wood carvings. Telephone Bettina Weider at 0041 52 366 58 78 or email  contact@oaxacaoriginal.com. We speak English, German, Italian, French and a little Spanish so we can welcome many people in their own language. 

 

Contact

Please contact us by telephone, fax or email. We speak English, German, French, Italian and a little Spanish. Our office is open during CET (Central European Time) working hours.

 

Recommended reading

Magic in the Trees: Shepard Barbash and Vicki Ragan
Changing Dreams: Shepard Barbash and Vicki Ragan
Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art: From the Collection of Fomento Cultural Banamex
Folk Treasures of Mexico: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection - Marion Oettinger Jr.
Crafting Tradition: The Making and Marketing of Oaxacan Wood Carvings - Michael Chibnik
Oaxacan Ceramics: Traditional Folk Art by Oaxacan Women -  Lois Wasserspring

Links
Alebrije
Manuel Jimenez
Oaxaca
San Martin Tilcajete
Dancing with Fireworks / Short film by Christopher Stowens
Dance of the Feathers / Short film by Christopher Stowens
La Zandunga / Short film by Christopher Stowens 
La Calavera Catrina
Flickr - William Goldman www.flickr.com/people/memo28/
Flickr - Karen Ewell www.flickr.com/photos/60047372@N00/
Mestizaje as Revealed in the Dual Nature of Oaxacan Wood Carvings by Heather N. Smith. https://library.cn.edu/HonorsPDFs_2009/Smith_Heather.pdf

 

Thank you...

We would like to thank you... and those that have played an important part in helping OO.

Giuseppe Leo - Berlin
Pippin Wigglesworth-Weider - Berlin
Arabella Ochoa - Sayulita 
Amy Mulvihill - New York
Bill Goldman - Chicago
Alejandro, Irma, Panchita - Casa Panchita - Oaxaca City