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SAN MIGUEL de ALLENDE, Mexico — Nearly 20 years ago, Charlie Hall took his pain, rooted in childhood humiliation, and left Dallas for Mexico. He was looking for what he called a “rebirth.”
“We all deserve a second chance,” Hall said. “Just like Mexicans find a second chance in the United States, I’m living proof that Americans, especially someone like me, can find a new life in Mexico.”
A native of Dallas, Hall was born with Moebius syndrome, a rare congenital condition that left him with partial facial paralysis and arms that end at his elbows.
That hasn’t stopped him from building on an already successful mom-and-pop business specializing in fine hand-etched, hand-blown glassware and handmade candles, under the product name Rose Ann Hall Designs.
The company is named after his mother, Rose Ann, and sells in high-end home accessory retailers, from Scottsdale, Ariz., to North Texas, including La Foofaraw in Plano, Favor the Kind in Uptown and Ceylon et Cie in the Design District.