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</gallery><blockquote><q>This meant that the new showroom in the rue de la Paix was obliged to specialise in alternative merchandise such as luxury leather goods, docks and watches, bronzes and in cigarette boxes and cases finished in lapis and jade and, thanks to the enterprise of someone who went to the Far East to acquire the rights, in the lacquer work of Japanese craftsmen. High-quality merchandise of this kind, which sold most successfully in the rue de la Paix, was later taken up in London and New York.</q> Mary Dunhill<ref name=mary18>Dunhill, Mary (1979). Our Family Business (p. 69). Great Britain, The Bodley Head</ref>.</blockquote> | </gallery><blockquote><q>This meant that the new showroom in the rue de la Paix was obliged to specialise in alternative merchandise such as luxury leather goods, docks and watches, bronzes and in cigarette boxes and cases finished in lapis and jade and, thanks to the enterprise of someone who went to the Far East to acquire the rights, in the lacquer work of Japanese craftsmen. High-quality merchandise of this kind, which sold most successfully in the rue de la Paix, was later taken up in London and New York.</q> Mary Dunhill<ref name=mary18>Dunhill, Mary (1979). Our Family Business (p. 69). Great Britain, The Bodley Head</ref>.</blockquote> | ||