In the summer of 2014, I was tasked by a young man named Peter living in one central European city, who was looking for the services of an interior designer. He had heard about my work as a home designer from a friend whose family I had planned the renovation of a family house in another city in central Europe in 2011. Peter’s e-mail won me over with its sincerity. At that time, he had just put down a deposit on an apartment in a new building in the part of the city of Bratislava named Staré Grunty. What happened …