Despite my love for Italy’s over-the-top Baroque art and sleek, modern accessories, I’m a fairly modest and spendthrifty person. But that does not mean that I don’t covet a design item, an objet d’art, from time to time.

Where on earth would I put a Fornasetti decorative plate of a dome from a famous Italian building such as the Pantheon? My grandma hung decorative plates, but those were always the hokey, machine-manufactured ones.