 The architecture of Bate Tichenor's house at Contembo Ranch in Michoacán was a simple Tuscan-style country villa cross-shaped designed brick and adobe two-story structure that she built with her Purépechan lover Roberto in 1958.Ario de Rosales was named “place where something was sent to be said” in the Purépecha language.Bate Tichenor became an artistic channel for the place that she chose to call her home.