What's in a name?

Allen is often asked why he chose the name "Minglewood." The answer is slightly different each time I hear him explain, but seems to always boil down to one simple idea: we are all every where we have been, everyone we have met, and everything we have done. Allen once said that he has never had a completely unique idea, but I find that quite the opposite is true. What makes his ideas, his designs, truly his own is that they come from bits and pieces of everyone and everything that make up who Allen, and who Minglewood, is today: a unique mingling of people, places, and ideas.