His firm restored both the Gringer and Russ & Daughters signs.
Finally she and her husband worked their way to the kitchen, now a bright compact space with a peninsula and a natural flooring like the one Mr. Macrae-Gibson chose for the Ottendorfer branch of the New York Public Library in the East Village, which his firm restored.
But, so far, workers and their unions have been remarkably quiescent, in keeping with the years of pay restraint accepted as firms restored their competitive edge after the country entered the euro at too high a rate.
Design 2000, an Italian firm, is finishing a renovation of 43 East 70th Street for Qatar, and the firm is restoring the rear yard.
When the firm was restoring the Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City, Mr. Fitch "got into incredible dialogues, telling the bishop how Catholic services should work," recalled Richard L. Blinder, a partner in Beyer Blinder Belle.
The underlying problem for some of the world's largest financial firms is restoring confidence, among big institutional investors and 401(k) nest-egg holders alike.
Still, a chastened Mr. Hicks, who will turn 57 next month, says that he and his firm will restore its reputation now that he has refocused the firm on what it does best: buying companies at reasonable prices and expanding them to increase profits -- what he calls his "buy and build" strategy.
However, Neil Brennon Wright of Thwaites & Reed, the world's longest operating clockmaking firm, who arrived from England on 18 December 2006 to examine the clock, said that his firm had restored far worse.
According to The Nashville Business Journal, the Opry is working with several restoration firms to restore videos, audio recordings, photographs, string instruments and other material that was damaged in the flood.
It turns out that Professor Maiolino's firm had restored the roof of the church, apparently winning him the right to visit whenever he pleased.
