Antique Gallery Gets Old Fashioned Tank.

Eight floors of 18th and 19th century antiques displayed in period pine-paneled Georgian rooms is what greeted the Rosenwach Tank Co., Inc. as it set out to replace Kentshire Galleries' 5,000 gallon house and standpipe tank this summer. The project was successfully completed in the family-owned and managed gallery, which occupies the entire landmark-protected building at 37 East 12th Street. The building's decorative features are extensive and include "Italianate arcades and elaborately fitted details," according to one of its co-owners, Frederic Imberman.

Imberman and his partner, Robert Israel, have amassed an amazing collection of furniture, paintings, porcelains and accessories. "Kentshire Galleries," says Mr. Imberman, "does business with the world's leading interior designers, architects, museums and private collectors." Among Kentshire's regular clients are Oscar de la Renta, Bill Blass, Ralph Lauren, Barbara Streisand, and the royal families of Morocco and Saudi Arabia.

Brothers-in-law Imberman and Israel continue the business started by Imberman's father in 1940. "The firm had a modest beginning as the United States Silver Company of 47th Street and moved to its present location "about 25 years ago," remembers Mr. Imberman. In 1986, the business expanded to the first and seventh floors of Bergdorf Goodman, where Marcie Imberman and Ellen Israel, wives of the principals of Kentshire Galleries, Ltd. and sisters-in-law "to boot," house a collection of antique and estate jewelry and antique gift items.