In a sunlit room at a location in Manhattan that I will not disclose, reporters and editors from some of the most respected consumer and trade publications in the world had their first opportunity Monday to view hundreds of fine jewelry creations by the some of the top designers in the business today.

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For example, "The French Window" at first looks like a sunlit interior, with a view looking out into a verdant garden and a woman--Marthe--sewing in the foreground.

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The courtyard, which was supposed to be a breezy, sunlit outdoor space at the heart of the estate, is now a dimly lit interior room covered by a heavy an obtrusive steel and glass roof.

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At which point we do really have to wonder if these are the right people to lead us into the sunlit uplands of a radically reformed food derivatives market.

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