(MONEY Magazine) – CAMPO DE' FIORI Route 7

The inviting, barnlike building is an arresting sight among the colonial homes that line the stretch of Route 7 that doubles as Main Street in Sheffield, Mass. The grounds are strewn with hand-carved stone and mesquite columns and planted in unlikely combinations of corn, tobacco, amaranth and herbs. Robin Norris, a former international banker, named his new shop Campo de' Fiori (413-528-9180) out of affection for Rome's market, where his mother shopped when the family lived in Italy in the early '60s. But Norris' three-month-old establishment in the heart of the Berkshire Mountains is stocked with artifacts from Mexico, where he has wandered, traded and made purchases for more than 25 years. A Purepecha Indian in the central highlands named Don Jose carves the wooden columns from whole trees transported by oxen; the stone ones are quarried and carved nearby. The columns ($350 for wood, $1,200 for stone) are structural and ideal for pergolas, arbors and porches or interiors. Inside the airy, two-story shop are finely crafted 200- to 300-year-old doors, complete with hardware, that have been turned into handsome cocktail and dining tables ($450 to $4,000); charming tinware picture frames ($12.50 to $100); exquisite woven cachepots and baskets ($17 to $60) designed by Norris and made by artisans in his Mexican atelier; as well as rustic pottery ($2 to $175 for hand-thrown beauties).