The Irish designer arrived, and installed himself in rehearsal room B with an enormous pack of black dustbin bags and some tins of adhesive, saying he required nothing from us except a bottle of Power's whiskey to be left outside his door every morning.
"Mass adoption requires technological innovations that dramatically lower costs," says Peter Rive, the chief operations officer of SolarCity in Foster City, Calif., a system designer and installer.
Robert Trickey, a San Francisco-based drapery designer and installer, said he had had no problem renting the guesthouse that sits next to his modern home, which is on a lava field and overlooks the ocean from the Puna Beach Palisades subdivision.
"We need technologies that can survive on a rooftop for 20 years," says Barry Cinnamon, chief executive of Akeena Solar Inc. of Los Gatos, Calif., a designer and installer of solar systems.
He made his first fortune as a cofounder of Paypal, and also has a stake in SolarCity, the publicly-traded solar panel designer and installer run by his cousin, Lyndon Rive.
Principle designer Cindy Holloway and assistant designer Vanessa Holliday colored the white walls and installed reclaimed wood flooring from old barns.
Lanvin, established in 1889 and the oldest continuously operating couture house in France, was revived in 2001 as a multicultural success story: the Taiwanese investor Shaw-Lan Wang bought it from L'Oréal and installed the Moroccan-Israeli designer Alber Elbaz.
This was said to include shipping designer furniture from Italy and installing a grand staircase made from glass and surgical steel.
Coming to the rescue is Virgil Abloh, the Off-White designer, recently installed Louis Vuitton menswear director, and bringer of salvation for brands afraid of stodginess.
Production designer Nathan Crowley installed twelve pumps to create a waterfall with 12000 gallons, and built rocks using molds of real caves.
