Alan Tse Design San Francisco

摘要

That's one thing Alan Tse knows from experience. The 37-year-old once sold a replica Le Corbusier lounge chair on Craigslist, which prompted a "nice lady, in head-to-toe Louis Vuitton" to show up at his door. After she requested a 20-percent discount, Tse went out on a limb, "judging by how put-together she was," says the San Francisco-based head of Alan Tse Design. "I told her I'd apply that 20-percent discount to her next home-remodeling project." The hustle paid off: three months later, the same well-coifed mystery woman took him up on the offer, and he scored his first-ever residential project, the Alta, a 2,400-square-foot remodel with addition. "She told me later, she was purchasing the chair to stage a home she was moving out of, so my 20-percent proposition came at the perfect time."