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Finds from Avent-deLeon’s favorite Mexico City market, La Cuidadela: A wooden bowl and cup, and a marble pyramid “from this man’s stand who makes everything you can imagine out of stone,” she says. When she finds something she likes while traveling, “I usually just buy one,” she says. “I like that they’re one-offs. If you’re able to get it then you’re the only person who has it, unless you go to the place on your own. I like to have things like this constantly rotating in and out of the store.”