...And also by furniture, specifically furniture for the private apartment of the Élysée Palace, the official residence of the French President, including works by the likes of, and again amongst others, Annie Tribel, Marc Held or Philippe Starck... And who also granted, grant, so-called Cartes Blanches, in essence stipends, to young designers to enable them to develop projects free of commercial pressures, free of that which a Rolf Fehlbaum once deliciously denounced as the "unmerciful censor of all ideas"1: the first Carte Blanche recipients including the likes of, for example, Martin Szekely, Jean-Michel Wilmotte or Philippe Starck...