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Palumbo Design » DEVELOPMENT DESIGN PROJECT MANAGEMENT

DEVELOPMENT + DESIGN + PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Spearhead & Lead Development:

• We find the right property to purchase, renovate or build.

• Create a Return On Investment prospectus

– (A Palumbo Design increases the value of the property 10% according to the top agents.)

• Provide FULL DEVELOPMENT and spearhead the project from start to finish.

• Welcome and find spec homes and development opportunities.

• Bring in the right architect specific to the project.

• Document existing conditions, floor plans and elevations.

• Zoning, code and cost analysis and budget development.

• Establish design vision.

Design:

• Assemble a team of professionals for project specific needs

• Develop floor plans, exterior elevations, sections, interior elevations.

• Select finishes, materials and do showroom visits.

• Get subcontractor quotes and further budget development.

• Solidify final design scheme, detail specifications, and revise fixed cost estimates.

• Full design-build and interior design services for each project

• Complete construction/permit drawings.

• Permit acquisition.

Project Manage:

• Manage the construction process from start to finish, with an emphasis on communication between all professionals.

• Zero in on economical, green and timesaving project solutions.

• Leverage multiple projects to ensure the highest quality workmanship and materials.

• Solve problems before they happen



By combining comprehensive design, architectural and construction services, our commitment is maintained in providing unique design, exceptional craftsmanship, unsurpassed project management and customer service. Palumbo’s personal approach to home renovation ensures quality, meticulous attention to detail and superb finishes that have become hallmarks of Palumbo Design.

Palumbo Design » Palumbo Design Customer Service Statement

Palumbo Design » Palumbo Design Customer Service Statement

Dear Clients, 

At Palumbo Design I take pride in ensuring every client’s satisfaction. I am are deeply troubled that there has been an online PR issue that has caused so much distress in regards to a misunderstanding with one previous client a long time ago in 30 years of dedicated service in my industry, and I have personally looked into this complaint.  Upon thorough review of the situation, I narrowed the cause to an unsigned contract, a misunderstanding of the total cost of a project and reassignment of duties from a subcontractor to myself. 

As a testament to strive for perfection, I have taken steps to ensure that this will never happen again bycreating new contracts that are clear in regards to payment terms (and ensuring they are signed before moving forward with a project), never moving forward on projects without prior approval of expenses and creating an internal auditing system, etc. 

Because of this serious oversight, we are going to provide all clients with transparent audit of costs and completed contracts signed at every stage of the project before and during project management when major changes in personnel are required. 

We deeply value your relationship with Palumbo Design and are committed to providing you with the highest level of service simply because my clients deserve the very best. 

If you have any further questions or comments regarding this matter, please feel free to discuss it with me atwww.palumbodesign.com. 

Yours in service, 

Michael Palumbo 

Palumbo Design 

Palumbo Design: Palumbo Design Unveils $25 Million Beverly Hills H...

Palumbo Design: Palumbo Design Unveils $25 Million Beverly Hills H...: Palumbo Design Unveils $25 Million Beverly Hills Home Redesign Los Angeles's leading designer reinvests in luxury and opulence BEV...

Palumbo Design Unveils $25 Million Beverly Hills Home Redesign

Palumbo Design Unveils $25 Million Beverly Hills Home Redesign

Los Angeles's leading designer reinvests in luxury and opulence

BEVERLY HILLS, C.A., March 7, 2012 -- Furthering its position as the leading modern luxury residential designer in Los Angeles, Palumbo Design today unveiled details of its $25 million home redesign project. (Photo: www.palumbodesign.com)

Scheduled for completion in late August, the project will completely redesign the Beverly Hills home and guest house, strengthening Palumbo's position as Los Angeles’ premier modern luxury residential designer.

"This project will ensure that we continue to deliver the world-class, luxury home experience clients have come to expect from Palumbo Design," said Michael Palumbo, Principal of Palumbo Design.  "The design of the entire estate represents a progressive departure from other homes in the area, with impeccable attention to detail that combines feelings of established openness, original touches, and smart amenities to exude contemporary extravagance."

Dedicated to a full California modern experience, Palumbo's redesign provides a variety of contemporary amenities coupled with amazing state of the edge features resourced from all over the world including; Germany, Italy, Greece and Sweden.

The redesigned experience has been designed for the connoisseur of homes with top-of-the-line technology integrated throughout the sexy pallet of white and dark chocolate Wenge wood, and dramatic automatic motion sensor lighting that turns on upon entry. Every switch, power source, and light fixture was meticulously placed for maximum accessibility.

The lucky new homeowner will be stunned walking onto a glass floor suspended over a very contemporary wood wine cellar, revealing a LED lit wine selection, to get to the main floor powder room door that opens electronically at the touch of a button.

Each element of the rooms’ complements the others, with pocketed doors and details found in elements like the imported electronic keypads that can also be controlled through an iPhone or iPad.

A commitment to excellence is apparent in all aspects of the home, including the $400,000 state-of-the art windows from Schuco, a German company and worldwide leader in solar window technology and design. Palumbo chose Schuco windows to ensure that every room in the house would be flooded with light as it defined the character of the home. Energy efficiency is just a bonus once you catch the amazing view of the 300-foot infinity moat encompassing the entire house, including the guesthouse, around the property that leads to both sides of the zero edge swimming pool. The amazing moat, built to capture more square footage from the property, will be incredibly alluring at night designed to look like a river of lit water.  

Providing the right technology support is essential, and the redesigned Palumbo home delivers. The home theatre has a 123-inch projector screen complete with its own powder room and wet bar adjoined to the wine cellar. The sitting room that also connects the theatre and wine cellar is a perfect place to be used as the cigar room or poker room.

"I believe in a full-service experience while at home, blending genuine convenience with efficient luxury," said Mike Palumbo.  "While we strive to deliver a residential product without equal, it is the personality of my style and the commitment of my team that makes a Palumbo Design truly distinctive, and keeps our customers coming back for more."

ABOUT THE LAUREL WAY PROJECT

Located at Laurel Way in Beverly Hills, the Laurel Way estate has 5 bedrooms and a 1 bedroom guest house; a 10,000 square foot house (combined with guest house) on 1 acre; 3,500 square feet of extensive upper deck patio space; 300-square foot moat surrounding 90% of the house; 9 fireplaces with an 18-foot linear fire pit on the master deck; 6-person Jacuzzi; and parking for 3 cars in the museum garage. The Laurel Way Project also features a heated infinity pool with a fabulous view of Los Angeles and Santa Monica.

For more information on the Laurel Way Project or to obtain a copy of this press release, please visit www.palumbodesign.com or twitter.com/@MikePalumbo4. 

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When You Want To Go Extravagant Go Palumbo

Oriole Way was a property that no one wanted. It may have been right next door to Leonardo Di Caprio's house, but it was only 2,600 square feet and hanging off a cliff. "Basically, the house was a show box on a cliff," says Palumbo. Many developers passed up the house because of the lack of square footage. However, Mike Palumob saw potential and doubled the square footage, then gave it even more... his imagination.

Oriole Way - Otherwise known as "The Entourage House"

When Palumbo bought the house the windows facing the view were the smallest windows you could see. There was no backyard and it had no pool or deck. The pool deck was the biggest challenge.

The house was long but it was narrow. Mike widened the house as much as he could. However, Palumbo  had to completely change the floor plan while maintaining the structure of the existing house.

Palumbo enlarged this house from 2,600 square feet to 6,000 square feet.

Palumbo's vision for the house was simply that he wanted it to have 'the cool factor'. He knew that he wanted this house to be a bachelor's house. However, more than anything he wanted to really take advantage of the best view in the 'Bird Streets'. "It has true jet liner views,"he said. Palumbo also wanted it to be a very open floor plan, so put in more windows and bigger windows to make the house seem even bigger than it was. He was also able to expand the garage from a 2-car garage to a 3-garage and built a gym under it. 

No matter what, he made the most of the views. 

Since he sold the house in 2004, the house has increased in value and the price keeps going up. When the home was completed in Mike was able to see the house for $4 million. However, the house just recently sold in 2011 as the highest selling house, per square footage, in the Hollywood Hills and Beverly HIlls, to date.

 

Palumbo Design » Palumbo: Coming Up For Air – Part 3

Palumbo Design » Palumbo: Coming Up For Air – Part 3

What is most striking about the evolution of Mike Palumbo, though, is not what a hard blow the housing crash dealt, but how creatively Palumbo rebounded. Recognizing two of his company’s key assets—an experienced, talented, flexible designer and close ties to architects with nationwide clientele—he began to accept projects he previously would have rejected as too small. Once untethered from his home base, Palumbo identified a wealth of opportunities. An earlier Bel Air house Palumbo remodeled for an attorney set the stage for projects outside the Hollywood hills.

The model works well when he has to work well with local general contractors on technically sophisticated projects. What Palumobo offers in such situations is management expertise and a designer’s eye on the job. And because local builders tend to charge an “afraid to do it” premium for one-off modern houses, Palumbo Design, can find contractors who are willing to work hand-in-hand.

“I’m always hoping to find someone who understands my kind of modernism for things in the tiniest details.” Palumbo and knows the crew is not capable of reading his mind. “We do a very thorough set of drawings,” Palumbo says, “but there are always some details that you’d never get to.” Palumbo fills in the blanks and makes choices that are not only great, but also remain in the spirit of what the end goal of the project is. Former developers who have worked with Palumbo will tell you his ideas are better than what they would’ve done.

The Laurel Way project “is a huge challenge because of the strict building codes the city enforces,” Palumbo says. “However, the house will be a very solid and well built house as a result of the restrictions and requirements.

Palumbo is a prodigy that has grown and evolved into the kind of designer you would want to know was involved in the building of your home, not only for his capable high to detail and taste for good design, but because of his knowledge of good construction and intuitive understanding of comfortable living space. And just as environmental stress drives the evolution of new species, the stress of the recession seems to have spurred Palumbo not only to adapt his primary business, but also to generate and take his talent and experience to the next level – a bigger wave.

Palumbo Design » Mike Palumbo of Palumbo Design Launches New Website

Palumbo Design » Mike Palumbo of Palumbo Design Launches New Website

One of the hottest contemporary designers ever to come out of the celebrity laden “Bird Streets”, as they are known in the Hollywood Hills, is making a comeback and its starting with his new website (http://palumbodesign.com). “He was the surfer on the wave of modern design in Los Angeles, always riding the crest first when it came to other designers of the time”, states David Brownlow of Brownlow +Chen. “After people saw Mike was building another they would say, what’s Palumbo doing now? They were busy cutting corners, but Mike was always the lead and guys like Steve Herman and Roger Davis followed.” Brownlow continues, “Those others will admit that Mike set the tone and the bar. Mike made the “Bird Streets” what they are.” After getting smashed in the sand of the Design-Build industry by clients who couldn’t pay and wrestling with the economic crisis like everyone else in the luxury building and design, Mike Palumbo has, once again, returned to his soul as a designer – but this time in Beverly Hills. 

The new Palumbo Design website will survey Palumbo's 30-year (1982-2012) career, primarily as a designer, showcasing more than 30 examples of homes he designed in Los Angeles throughout his career. Michael Palumbo's impressive oeuvre is noted for its combination of gorgeous woods with materials such as steel, glass, cane, and for his timelessness. His homes have been so popular that they are used in TV and in such films as “The Takers” in 2010, HBO’s popular series “Entourage” in 2004, ABC’s “Beautiful Homes and Great Estates” and magazines such as InStyle, LUXE, US, House Beautiful, Space and more. Regardless of how aesthetically beautiful or freshly inventive his creations are, they were always intended to be functional and simplistic. Palumbo stands out among modern designers in his avoidance of trends or styles. Working within a modernist tradition, Palumbo's work is distinguished by an elegance of line, purity of materials, fascination with structure, and delight in small details. 

Mike and the many people that have worked with him will tell you he is not “just” a designer; he’s a team builder. He finds a location, Developer, General Contractor and Architect before a project even begins. Design-build, also known as the “Master Builder” approach, is a method to deliver a project in which the design and construction services are contracted by a single entity known as the design-builder and is used to minimize risks for the home owner and reduce the delivery schedule by overlapping the design phase and construction phase of a project. “Too many people hire the entities separate and then run into problems. The design-build procurement route always reduces risks to luxury home owners and overall costs.” With his team in tow Mike is unstoppable in creating a vision that becomes a passion that drives the project through to completion. “I just want to do what I love to do – design and project manage the details.”

How Michael Palumbo Surfs His Way Forward in Los Angeles – Part 2

How Michael Palumbo Surfs His Way Forward in Los Angeles – Part 2

Surfing on the Break

Palumbo Design’s capabilities are amply on display in a house designed by Michael Palumbo in Beverly Hills at 1201 Laurel Way, now under construction. Approaching the house on a sun-drenched California spring day, Palumbo pulls his car around a line of a dozen tradesman’s trucks waiting to enter. Inside the neighborhood, one finds what one expects—large California-style houses—and something rather unexpected: a low, abstractly geometrical form with crisp, planar surfaces rendered in rammed earth. Virtually windowless where the house faces the view, at its entry side the house expands as the grade falls away, cracking its obscure shell to reveal broad walls where floor to ceiling glass will be that bound this private home with a 300 foot infinity moat surrounding it. This amazing one-of-a-kind moat will be connecting to the swimming pool on opposite ends, so even when one is swimming, the view is always available.

The house is large—the total square footage will be 1 acre—but that number is made practically moot by the boldness of the design and by a combination of technology, material, and dexterity utterly unique in the residential sphere. This is the first high-end spec house Palumbo has seen in a while and it is poised on its own peninsula, north of Sunset Boulevard, a perfect place to build a luxury home - one of the best locations in Beverly Hills. Palumbo was able to increase the square footage of the house by creating flat areas of the house that compliment the amazing infinity moat. “When that moat is lit,” says Palumbo, “It will be amazing.”

Another beautiful feature in the home - Super Thassos - pure white recycled glass that does not stain unlike regular Thassos. Super Thassos does not stain. “Very few people can install it,” says Palumbo, “It takes a special technician and it will be phenomenal in this house.”

A great deal of structural steel was removed since it was blocking the view that would allow Palumbo to provide his signature indoor-outdoor feel. Additional features include pocketed doors throughout the house. Palumbo added pocketed doors so the doors could remain hidden throughout the house. The biggest challenges were adding more square footage and dealing with a guesthouse that was so deteriorated that it could have fallen down. The city of Beverly Hills did not want it torn down, but now the guesthouse will have views that are just as good as the main house. Palumbo states this project is an advancement and refinement of his designs done in the past – a combination of the best from all the homes.

The project is a godsend when the pipeline of work slowed to a trickle, and when projects in hand turn to sand overnight. To provide a glimpse at the latter scenario, Palumbo fondly remembers a trophy home in another upscale subdivision, the ‘Bird Streets’. Lined with celebrity sightings throughout the neighborhood and open to the elements, the house has been on ABC’s “The View” and was 'thee' house of glamor in the 4^th season of HBO’s coveted TV series “Entourage”. Designed by Palumbo, the home has ‘jetliner’ views and a patio the hangs over a cliff.  The house, located on Oriole Drive, is the highest selling home per square foot in both Beverly Hills and the Bird Streets.

How Michael Palumbo Surfs His Way Forward in Los Angeles – Part 1

Custom Design-Build designer Michael Palumbo remembers the first hard jolt that came in spring 2008, when two major projects disappeared within a month. “It was probably $35 million of work that went away,” Palumbo says. “For me that’s the equivalent of a whole year of work.” While other designers struggled to maintain a semblance of their former business or quietly folded, Palumbo responded with a flurry of innovation in smaller projects, focusing on new specific rooms, products, innovations and the latest in green building materials. Drawing on his ties with prominent residential architects, Palumbo expanded beyond a shrinking luxury building market in Hollywood while leveraging its talented chops to explore entirely new lines of work. Yes, Palumbo readily admits, the boom years were good to him, but he is adamant in his assertion that they are over. “If you’re a designer in Los Angeles just waiting for it to go back to the way it was,” he says, “you’ll be waiting for a while.”

FINDING HIS LEGS IN THE WATER

Michael Palumbo will be the first to tell you he works with a different mindset than your average person. As a kid in California he was an avid surfer, he raced go-karts around the country. This lead him to racing cars professionally where he won numerous awards making it to the Toyota Altantic Championship and PGG Indy Light circuit where he won!  This motivated him to work for his father’s development and construction company every summer to pay for his car-racing career. After taking up construction with his dad, absorbing the business without really trying. During the California winters he helped his mother an interior designer where she was considered one of the best in the industry. “I learned how to swim real well when it came to creating a beautiful home inside and out,” says Palumbo, grinning. “Just like racing cars and surfing, I learned real fast.” Entrepreneurship came to him as naturally as racing and surfing. “I always had my own business,” he says. During high school it was Window Washing and a mobile car detailing business. “The summer before college, I made like $40,000,” he says. “I went to college to major in business but I was already running a successful business.” Once there, he couldn’t stay. “I was in class, and I thought to myself, this is a huge waste of time. Not only is it costing a ton of money, I’m not making any money.’” Architecture may have been a better fit, but true to his restless enterprising nature, Palumbo charted his own course in the design-build profession. He knew how to swim, but now he wanted to surf – his own way.

Designer Michael Palumbo - February 24, 2012

Designers who also are builders are nothing new, but very few deploy their construction crews in the service of their design as opposed to a sole architect, and that is precisely the approach that Palumbo settled on. More than half of Palumbo’s work is for or with architects, and the company has created a niche for itself by partnering with Los Angeles’s most prominent modernist firms.

Palumbo didn’t set out to become a designer/builder, he started out as a General Contractor. “I just sort of followed my nose,” he says. In 1982, he arrived in Arcadia amid the Reagan era. “I met a ton of architects. Nobody was very busy. But it was a good opportunity for me because I was able to network with all these guys and start building and designing in another direction than how my father had been doing it.” And that gave Palumbo the idea for a different kind of building company. “I had always worked in the construction industry,” he explains, and his notion of design and architecture had always been entwined with the construction process, in part, thanks to his mother including him on her interior design work. “I never had a strong desire to just sit and draw pictures.” Putting an architect’s aesthetic sense and design skills out on the jobsite made Palumbo a hit with La’s top modernist firms. “And that…” he says, “…became a really good business plan.” In short order he established a new category in the industry: Palumbo Design – a Design-Build company.

Designer Michael Palumbo - February 24, 2012

“I am the ‘Master’ and the other principals are architects, superintendents and subcontractors. Because I am overseeing it all as a project manager and hold the main vision I am able to keep everyone working cohesively towards the same goal. In the long run, it saves money.” With a skilled designer on the jobsite, the architect can safely put more detail on his drawings. “It is here where I can think about door jambs; and consider the look, feel and placement of the type of cabinets.” When he intends minor building components to align, Palumbo says, “I don’t have to communicate it to the electrician or the plumber or the tile setter. It’s just done.” Of course, a good architect on the team expands Palumbos’ range as a designer, but good design also pushes the abilities of the architect. “We’re always exploring new territory,” says Palumbo, who relies on the architect for feedback on constructability while the developer focuses on cost and keeping within budget. 

New Beverly Hills House by Palumbo Design is the Best Yet

Sneak Peak: The Story of 1201 Laurel Way

A Redesign of a New Beverly Hills House

By Palumbo Design - Set to be Best Yet

Even though Palumbo Design has been designing and building quality upscale homes in the Los Angeles basin for thirty years, it does not mean his work cannot exceed his experience in the next project and that is what is happening on the latest Beverly Hills home he is designing and building at 1201 Laurel Way. 

"It has been a few years since we have seen a high end spec house like this in a while", says Mike Palumbo of Palumbo Design. “One design challenge is that part of the house had to remain, so we had to work with the bones of the house.” Mike and the architect were forced to redesign the house that sits on a peninsula around the perimeters. 

“There were a lot of view restrictions because the city has a view ordinance and because we can’t block the neighbors, but it is actually a perfect place to build a house.”

This house will be a monument to structure, form, architecture and design because of the Beverly Hills home building requirements alone that the designer and architect are forced to adhere to, according to Palumbo. “This will be one of the best built houses we have ever done.”

Location is one of the most beautiful advantages of the property north of sunset but not the only one. The house is also using all the latest energy saving technology and part of that also coincides with an increase in square footage to the home. Palumbo and his team were able to increase the floor ratio of the house, which includes the guesthouse, by creating flat areas of the property in building a 300-foot infinity mote that will be around the entire house. There is no other house in Beverly Hills that has a mote going around 90% of the house using super thassos glass A.K.A. crystallized glass or minicrystal. It is pure recycled glass in pure white and does not stain. Very few people can install this beautiful glass provided by Soli direct from the quarry, it takes a special technician.

This white thassos and chocolate wenge will be the threaded theme throughout the house. The chocolate Wenge (weng-gay) is a tropical timber, very dark in color with a distinctive figure and a strong partridge wood pattern. The wood is heavy and hard. These two products alone that Mike chose for the design in the house will be a striking contrast while providing the indoor-outdoor feel that was blocking the terrific views the old house had on the peninsula.

Mike Palumbo's Early Design Sense

Chinese architecture refers to a style of architecture that has taken shape in East Asia over many centuries. The structural principles of Chinese architecture have remained largely unchanged, the main changes being only the decorative details.

Mike Palumbo started in the industry building new custom homes in the San Gabriel Valley with a target audience of Asian descent. Mike's own design skills in the first few years of business brought a very large Asian following and did so until 1999.


Asian style interior design takes its cue from Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese and other Eastern cultures. Asian design influences contemporary interiors with Zen spaces for relaxation, feng shui furniture arrangements, Asian-style bedding, lacquered boxes or silk Chinoiserie wallpaper. Needless to say, Asian home design varies greatly. 

An important feature in Chinese architecture is its emphasis on articulation and bilateral symmetry, which signifies balance. When possible, plans for renovation and extension of a house will often try to maintain this symmetry provided that there is enough capital to do so. Secondary elements are positioned either side of main structures as two wings to maintain overall bilateral symmetry.

In contrast to the buildings, Chinese gardens are a notable exception which tends to be asymmetrical. The principle underlying the garden's composition is to create enduring flow.

Michael Palumbo is Back Bigger Than Ever

Mike Palumbo is arguably one of the most prolific and consistently original designers of the late twentieth century and early twenty first century.  A designer, builder, visionary, artist and international leader in design-build with a passion for good design and quality craftsmanship Palumbo Design builds homes that are truly a work of art. It is Palumbo’s impeccable standards of construction and use of high quality materials that distinguish him as a premier designer and builder. His interior designs and architectural projects are remarkable for their refinement, elegance and attention to detail. Palumbo Design has been designing, building and furnishing custom homes for more than 30 years and has earned its reputation as a premier modern home designer and building company in California. The company’s two main services, Home Design and Home Construction, provide clients with a complete package of services for new and existing homes. 

The new Palumbo Design website surveys Palumbo's 30-year (1982-2012) career, primarily as a designer, showcasing more than 30 examples of kitchens, living rooms, dining rooms, and highlighting complete homes he designed in Los Angeles throughout his career. Michael Palumbo's impressive oeuvre is noted for its combination of gorgeous woods with materials such as steel, glass, cane, and upholstery. Regardless of how aesthetically beautiful or freshly inventive his creations are, they were always intended to be functional and simplistic. Palumbo stands out among modern designers in his avoidance of trends or styles and his commitment to solving design problems in an original way. Working within a modernist tradition, Palumbo's work is distinguished by an elegance of line, purity of materials, fascination with structure, and delight in small details. Although crafted with precision and taste, his designs often exudes a distinctive quirky playfulness that reflects the designer's belief that a sense of fun should be part of a work's purpose.

“Los Angeles homeowners interested in this style often tell me how difficult it is to find a someone they can trust specializing in modern design and construction-until they find Palumbo Design.” It is also no secret that the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies predicts a 5 percent increase in remodeling spending by Q3 2012 to $113.6B and unlike many other designers in the Los Angeles area, Mike Palumbo is at the forefront of modern design and building.  

Design-build, also known as the “Master Builder” approach, is a method to deliver a project in which the design and construction services are contracted by a single entity known as the design-builder and is used to minimize risks for the home owner and reduce the delivery schedule by overlapping the design phase and construction phase of a project. “Too many people hire the entities separate and then run into problems. The design-build procurement route always reduces risks to luxury home owners and overall costs.”

Mike Palumbo of PALUMBO DESIGN is a leading residential designer and builder in Beverly Hills, Hollywood and in the Greater Los Angeles area and will soon be launching a new website in an effort to inform, inspire and provide clients with easy access to the portfolio of work showcasing how design-build from Palumbo Design provides the best to his affluent and celebrity clientele.