Soon after his death, the firm went out of business.
However, two firms on the list below may go public during 2012.
And many more smaller firms around the nation have gone under.
But after some time, the firm changed its field of operation and went into construction works.
The firm has gone through two retail heads since then.
In the first six months of this year nearly 30,000 small firms went to the wall - a third up on 1991.
Later in the same year, however, the firm went out of business.
His firm went on to win about 50 design awards.
Despite this the firm went on to complete 43 examples.
"Then our firm would never go along with such a scheme."