“A while back, the countertechnician at the County Building + Safety Office gave me the approved, but now-expired set of plans to this project. He told me that it seemed wrong to just throw the plans away. That it seemed more like art than just a standard set of house plans. I took that as a distinct honor that the counter technician acknowledged my effort - I didn’t even think that they looked at the plans in their files. And what’s more was he held on to them for several months until I came back in.”
“The client told me that they’d interviewed Marmol + Radziner for the commission, which indicated that they were interested in doing a project of architectural significance. The client was a young creative couple; as such, they let me have a lot of artistic freedom.”The client became so caught up in the spirit of the project, that they even enlisted Robin Poirier to build it. Robin is the only contractor to have built both John Lautner and Bart Prince projects. The client created their own website dedicated to the project :