I HEART YAKY

Along a busy street in the center of Rome, just a few blocks from Largo Argentina, a little oasis of Chinese splendor can be found.  Yaky’s (www.yaky.it) collection of Asian antiques, predominately hailing from the Qing period (1644 – 1912), is mixed with rare found objects as well as modern furniture-- leather trunks, petrified wood tables, painted cabinets, bronze figurines and apothecary cabinets.  This great shop has the ability to construct reproductions and custom pieces of the utmost quality, and an important aspect of Yaky’s ethics is that all pieces have been authorized for export by the Chinese Cultural Heritage Ministry.  This dedication to heritage definitely shines through…