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RJ Rose Realty is a family
owned and operated company. We provide
on-site family management
of our building.
 Brooklyn-born,
Randolph Rose has been in the Asian arts and antiques
business since 1972 when he joined founding partner Stephen R. Gano.
While stationed in Thailand during his military service in the '60s, Gano
began shipping back antiques he’d personally discovered in Thai
villages to his aunt’s antique store in Greenwich Village. Returning
to civilian life, he opened a shop in Manhattan and later converted
part of a house he had bought in Yonkers into an art gallery.
T hese
longtime business partners have showrooms in Manhattan, Far Eastern
Arts and Antiques, and in Dania Beach Florida. Rose is joined in the
business by his wife Ellen and their three sons. The oldest
son, Austin runs the showroom and garden sculpture business in
Florida, The Rose Garden of Dania Beach. Sons Jordan and Harlan
manage the Yonkers facility with Randy. Jordan is also the VP
of the Randolph Rose Collection
and Harlan is the VP of Operations for the Randolph Rose Collection,
a related art and home furnishings business located in their
building in Yonkers.
Since 1972 when their
partnership began, Rose and Gano grew their enterprise into a substantial
import business. The
inventory of Asian imports is
warehoused at 500 Nepperhan Avenue, a five story,
170,000 square foot relic in red brick from the heyday of Yonkers as
a manufacturing center in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
A
collection that occupied 10,000 square feet of space in 1986, when the
business became a tenant in the former carpet mill and furniture
factory, has grown into 61,000 square feet on three warehouse floors
filled with handpicked pieces found in his partner’s travels through
China, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand and South Korea.
In March, 2006 Randolph Rose
bought the 125 year old building
with the vision of turning their
private showroom for wholesale buyers into a public one for
retail customers and turn the mill into a multi-tenant design
center. The goal is turning into
reality with currently over a dozen design and arts related tenants.
In the newly redeveloping
Yonkers our goal is to make this a destination building with our own
look, which would include high quality companies in the home
furnishings industry, offering antiques, fabrics, lighting, framed art and carpets. |
