Helen has most recently lived in the south of France, where she learned about French antiques and worked with many knowledgeable French antiquaries. She sourced antiques, in particular, in Provence, the Cote d’Azure, and Italy and worked again with Paris sources and auction houses throughout the country and in Monaco.

Today, she returns to Charlottesville, Virginia, with a very current understanding of where to find gorgeous, authentic antiques not only in the U.S. but throughout Europe, and will travel often to collect them for her customers. Her goal is to make antique buying playful and contemporary, to serve designers, young and more experienced buyers, the trade, collectors, and anyone else for whom beauty -- in the present, and of the past -- is an essential part of life.