For the lucky guest, a visit to Helen���s Park Avenue
apartment might include the tastiest homemade apple
pie you will ever have. We were lucky. It is also a pleasure to see an important collection of late medieval and
early Renaissance Italian art, gracefully residing in a 21st
century private dwelling. Importantly, the collection occupies rooms decorated in a manner which enhances a
viewer���s appreciation of the objects��� beauty.
Helen and her late husband Nereo executed the apartment���s decorative painting. In the principle rooms the
beams, door surrounds, baseboards and walls are
painted in a fashion reminiscent of an Italian RenaisHYLAND
