M ore than any other industrial sector, home furnishings is and always has been a family affair. Based on creative entrepreneurial vision, dynasties have been founded and many have prospered.
New generations treasure their history, and reinvest in the strengths of established tradition.
When European cabinetmaker Julius Frankel and his wife Frieda arrived in Montreal back in 1947, they shared a vision. In a short six months, the couple were operating a going concern on St. Lawrence Boulevard. Fifty years later, Peter and Rachelle Frankel are perpetuating the family legend at their 6,000 square foot Doncaster Avenue store at Thornhill, a prosperous residential suburb, part of the Greater Toronto Area. Repeat customers make up a large part of Peter and Rachelle's clientele. Today we have clients who come in buying for their children, and their own parents were customers of my father's.