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What can the Battle of Versailles teach us about innovation?

What can the Battle of Versailles teach us about innovation?

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Ana Andjelic
May 11, 2015
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How Innovation Often Happens at the Edge

The year is 1973, the place is Versailles, and five established French designers competed against five upstart American designers in a fundraiser to renovate Versailles.

Who won?

If Robin Givhan, author of “The battle of Versailles” is to believe, “ultimately, it was the Americans who stunned the crowd that night — …

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