MARTIN ROSS FETNER

A nice looking finished remodel of my neighbor's apartment turned out to be no guarantee - or even a good indication - that the neighbor's architect would be appropriate for my project. I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted design-wise, but Fetner seemed to be under the delusion that he was designing for Architectural Digest, not me. He remained convinced that he knew what was best, and found numerous excuses to ignore my repeated requests. He INSISTED on specifying appliances and fixtures of his own choosing, despite my clearly telling him that I knew what I wanted. This struck me as very inappropriate for an architect. I finally came to the conclusion that he was never going to listen and terminated our contract. An additional nuisance was that he was very reluctant to communicate via e-mail, and he provided lame excuses for this as well.