Did you ever wonder what lay behind the shuttered windows of the grand avenues of Paris? Perhaps you walked the streets of Odessa trying to imagine what life might have been like in those rooms a hundred years before?

Likewise did you ever wish to really penetrate a non Western culture? To understand the people and their myths and legends? When you looked into foreign eyes did you wonder how their myths translated into their everyday thoughts and how this in turn made them view you?

These are the doors we seek to open. We seek private access not just to private homes and collections but to the mind of the artist. Such access takes you beneath the outermost skin of a culture, but also to a much deeper inner layer. This allows you to understand and appreciate the people you visit, as well as the beauty of their arts, on an entirely different level.