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31 years ago a guy drove up in a beat up car and... (true story with a marketing lesson)
It was at the beginning of my second year here in Orlando after having moved from Texas in '87 (after OPEC ruined the economies of the gas producing states).
I had taken over a very large luxury home and we were discussing the details of the plans on site when out of nowhere...
...this older car drives into the sandscape and in the middle of a very hot August day a bedraggled fellow gets out and asks who was in charge -- and then inquires if we were interested in seeing his natural stone product.
Well, we hadn't thought about even using stone as the owner (a Disney PR exec) had raided Disney's Italy and France pavilion warehouses and pulled out the fiberglass moldings that were being prepared now for much of the exterior detailing.  I was about three quarters through the re-design --see below the original elevation plan and how I 'embellished' it by adding turrets and redesigning many of the details:

above: before  below: after

The stranger opened his trunk and pulled out sample after sample of beautiful Mexican canterra, a type of volcanic stone that could be had in strawberry to chocolate coloration and even in a veined marble imitation that with a gloss ... more

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