In 1761 he employed Robert Adam, who was just emerging as one of the most fashionable architects in England, to remodel the house.

In 1822 Friedrich von Gärtner, the fashionable architect, was appointed artistic director of the factory.

They often used the most fashionable architects and furniture makers of the day.

Otherwise most of the buildings were built and designed by local builders in the vernacular style, borrowing from older buildings, pattern books and fashionable architects alike.

He recruited the then very fashionable Irish architect, James Franklin Fuller, to design the house.

He commissioned James Wyatt, one of the most fashionable architects of the time, to design a new house.

By 1805, when Lord Ashburton's widow commissioned John Nash to design her country retreat, he was a highly fashionable architect.

He gives Henri Mahé, one of the most fashionable architects of the day, the task of improving and fitting out the new auditorium.

The American Institute of Architects in 1908 called him "the most fashionable architect of his generation."

They formed a corporation, raised money, hired a fashionable architect and built the ornate Concertgebouw in the marshlands at what was then the edge of the city.