" Many design consultancies have tried to transmute Kuwait's rich past and historic culture into their look to create a new Arab image with one foot firmly plan- ted in the desert and another somewhere midway between the east and the west. The results have alternated between spectacular and clumsy. Tania Absi, however, approaches her design craft from a different angle and has shunned the past in favor of developing a look born from the youthful perspective of the Kuwaiti population to come up with design concepts that reflect what she hopes will be the future of interior design in the Arab world. "