Ditta G. Poggi

Due to the lack of air conditioning in Rome, most homes and businesses have windows and other ventilation open to the outside. Because of that, when you walk by you can smell the building in ways that you might not be able to in a block of sealed conditioned buildings. One day early on, I smelled a tiny library before I saw it. Later as I was visiting the outside of the supreme court building, I was shocked to notice that it smelled like the Ole Miss law library. Does law have a smell? Ditta G. Poggi smells like wooden pencil shavings from the sidewalk.

This art store is probably my favorite I have been in. I like that it is a series of winding rooms like a lot of Roman stores, and that they have such a wide variety of stuff. It is a block from our studio space on a corner halfway between studio and the Pantheon. I haven't actually purchased anything there yet, but I think tomorrow may be the day.