This is the rather uninspiring outside to a leather goods store in an area between Porta Pia and the Villa Borghese park just north of Termini station. However, inside it's another story.
The shop is split into two halves: on the left hand side- the first door you see on your left in the picture above- is the small leather goods shop, selling belts, bags, purses, wallets and other leather accessories. To the right is the part which sells products for leather, like creams, polishes, brushes and so on.
The leather goods shop isn't half so interesting as its sister on the right- a place of fine wooden furnishings, plentiful drawers and old style presentation.
There are a few shops like this left in Rome, but they are the kind of thing that is disappearing fast as counters give way to racks of goods and shops become more open planned affairs. This is not necessarily a bad thing. Nevertheless, certainly it feels as if something has been lost if you look at the other pictures above.
