Word: demattei
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...very polemical," says Tan from the San Francisco house she shares with her lawyer husband Lou DeMattei. "I just wanted readers to have a better understanding of moral complexities. I wanted to examine, for instance, the notion that people must die in order to make things better." She cites a controversial 1996 British television exposé of abuses at Chinese orphanages. "Right away the orphanages were closed, adoptions discontinued, cleft-palate and other special surgery stopped. My husband and I worked with some of those orphanages, so we know what was at stake. Does publicly humiliating China save lives...
...felt that whole market was underserved," says Dave DeMattei, president of emerging brands at Williams-Sonoma. "It was time to explode out of the kitchen and out of the bed-and-bath department." (Williams-Sonoma Home will replace the Chambers catalog, also owned by the Williams-Sonoma company...
| 1 |