by Mimi Rosenthal | Nov 7, 2015 | Uncategorized
Whether your idea of an island is a romantic spot in the Aegean or an archipelago in the South Pacific, you are on a piece of land smaller than a continent and completely surrounded by water. Now step into your kitchen and consider the design of your island. DH...
by Mimi Rosenthal | Apr 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
When you think of toile, the Beastie Boys do not come to mind. Toile or Toile de Jouy (pronounced twahl de zhoo-E) is named for the village Jouy-en-Josas near Versailles where Christophe-Philippe Oberkamph (1738-1815) founded his textile factory in 1760. The...
by Mimi Rosenthal | Feb 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
Cathedrale Notre-Dame de Rouen Rouen, France. The Cathedral has a remarkable history that began in the 11th century. Richard the Lionheart‘s heart is buried here as was his wish. Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen and a chapel in the cathedral is dedicated...
by Mimi Rosenthal | Feb 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Scale It’s what we step on after we’ve finished that twelfth brownie hoping our weight hasn’t changed. It is critical to our understanding of maps and floorplans; scale is integral to music and it may be the covering of some sea creatures. But Scale...
by Mimi Rosenthal | Jan 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Tucson Mountain Retreat, Tucson, Arizona. Architect: Dust Timmerman Photography Inc., Phoenix, Arizona Traversing this unique flight of stairs takes dexterity and care.
by Mimi Rosenthal | Jan 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
He is my grandfather. His Russian passport reads Hyman Osband. It is 1907, the year he has chosen to leave Riga and the Baltic behind and make his way to America and a new life. A good time for a young man to renounce the Czar, and escape the promise of conscription...
by Mimi Rosenthal | Jan 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
The Segelin family leaves Russia in 1895 for a better, safer life in Leeds, England, a center of clothing manufacturing. It will be a stopover of nearly a decade, before America beckons. Rochester, NY will be their destination. It is one of the top five cities in...
by Mimi Rosenthal | Jan 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
Born and raised in Rochester, New York, my gaze was always on New York City, that amazing metropolis 250 miles to the southeast. Everything fashionable started there and it usually took two years for a style to travel upstate. Nothing was instant. It was life lived...
