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Article: Objectively speaking.(exhibition of work of Dagobert Peche, New York City; booming cosmetics industry in Russia)
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- WWD
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- October 15, 2002
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NEW YORK -- Austria's artistic wunderkind Dagobert Peche is having a coming-out party on Fifth Avenue.
Ivory tiaras, whimsical textiles, fanciful wallpaper and "Alice in Wonderland"-type tables are among the 400-plus pieces of his handiwork on display through Feb. 10 in "Dagobert Peche and the Wiener Werkstatte," the first major retrospective devoted to the designer, at The Neue Galerie, Ronald Lauder's jewel box museum.
Born outside of Salzburg in 1887, Peche dropped painting to train as an architect at his father's request, and in 1911 joined the Wiener Werkstatte, a design collective that produced simple objects for everyday use. During Peche's ...