Articles by Manya Kaczkowski

Mon, 09/17/2012 - 08:13
Design. Functionality. Technology. After drooling over several lovely leather handbags—among the most fashionable in the world—at a shop in Rome, I ca…
Mon, 06/04/2012 - 09:12
Rolling down the A1 in a great big tour bus, I was desperately hoping that the toll road’s nickname—Highway of the Sun—would influence the day. We wer…
Wed, 03/21/2012 - 06:53
I stroll nonchalantly past the immense image of Christ in the Vatican’s Gallery of Tapestries. My guide, Giulio, tells me that people sometimes think…
Thu, 03/01/2012 - 08:37
Before today, I thought of Italian art only in terms of sculpted gods and goddesses, lively Renaissance paintings and fabulous architecture. That’s al…