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Arafat followed up quickly by naming Qureia to succeed Abbas, tossing a hot potato into President Bush's lap. Qureia, the popular speaker of the Palestinian legislature and key Oslo negotiator, is widely known as a moderate opposed to the armed intifada, who maintains close ties with many European, Arab...
DOMEAU & PERES
Sometimes the old can heave the new into the beyond. Old ways have hustled French furniture manufacturer Domeau & Peres into the vanguard of its field. Bruno Domeau is a trained saddlemaker who plied his trade in the luxury-automobile industry. Philippe Peres traveled France studying with master craftsmen as an...
But the industrialists are often leery of things they haven't seen before. Designers' ideas are thus circumscribed by what manufacturing companies have the skill and inclination to produce. Domeau & Peres can and will produce almost anything. It has worked with established stars such as Andree Putman and such leading...
Domeau & Peres makes about 300 copies of each of its pieces per year. "If we moved toward a more industrial style, we'd be falling into the same logic as everyone else," says Peres. Where's the vision in that? --By Belinda Luscombe. Reported by Nicholas Le Quesne/Paris