O so important am I that I can turn down clients.

You as normal client would not be welcome in this very important interior shop. The proprietor of Object Furniture promptly tells existing (now previous) clients that he will not even take in curtains (that he made a couple of years ago) to be shortened. We were turned away like a bad smell by him and told that he has 3 hospitals to do and that he will not even take in the work for later. So we left his shop never to return again after being a client on two previous occasions in the past ten years.