If you're jaded, get out of it, you know?" He said he designed one of his favorite adventures five years ago for a client named Margo, who works in theater.
When Bernard Cywinski, an architect in Philadelphia, was asked to design a home in that city's historic district a few years ago for a client in cramped quarters, the wish list was pretty standard: more space, higher ceilings, a better view.
"If I can't verify their financial information," he said, "how do I know they can repay?" Mr. Savitt said that in certain circumstances he would consider a stated-income mortgage, like the one he arranged about 15 years ago for a client who was a part-owner of 84 different weight-loss businesses.
Sandy Bragar, a broker at Douglas Elliman, has been working for a year with a client who passed on an apartment she loved months ago because a contractor told her the floors were crooked.
For several years, we had a client in the Napa Valley.
Comment on a conversation with an architect who is designing a house for a client 101 years old.
The New Yorker, January 28 , 1956P. 19 Comment on a conversation with an architect who is designing a house for a client 101 years old.
That could include a lot of folks: Denton's typically earns more than $6 million each year lobbying for a huge client list that includes several Native American tribes, Time Warner Cable and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
And it would require firms to rotate auditors so that an accountant could not work for more than five consecutive years for the same client.
Clients were followed for an average of 997 days, 2.7 years (593 days, 1.6 years, for clients returning, and 1,712 days, 4.7 years, for clients not returning).
