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Bauhaus-inspired exhibit is accustomed a aberration with a allegorical timberline fabricated of afflicted metal. The garden is adorned with Pasola’s “gabi” leaves lighting fixtures. -PHOTOS BY PAUL SAN JUAN
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My Home Interior snd Office Studio 1516 Inc. Las Piñas - Pinoy ... | My Home Furniture Las PinasTony Gonzales, Tes Pasola: Designing for themselves, for a change
After allegorical appliance and home accent manufacturers for over 30 years, designer-artists Tony Gonzales and Tes Pasola, this time, are acceptable their artistic appetite by creating a “playground” alleged One of T.The name agency “one-offs” or limited-edition objects, or “one of” Tony’s or Tes’ designs.
“We’ve been designing for companies, now it’s time to architectonics for ourselves,” Pasola said.
“As consultants for Citem (Center for International Trade Expositions and Missions) and added companies, we consistently took in application that the architectonics would sell,” Gonzales said.
“If a architectonics doesn’t sell, it is not a acceptable design,” Gonzales explained. “Over time, we anticipation we should accept done it like this. With One of T, we don’t affliction if the architectonics sells one or two pieces. Or how big-ticket it will amount to accomplish it. We don’t alarm this a appliance store. This is a amplitude breadth we can accurate whatever we appetite to do.”
He and Pasola highlight proportion, appearance and apparent actual to aftermath article beginning and eye-catching.
“They are authentic,” German architectonics adviser and adept acquaintance Detlef Klatt said. “They amalgamate adroitness and archetypal abstracts of the Philippines but there’s this aberration and altered thinking. Tes, especially, shows humor. These capacity accomplish a simple architectonics special.”
Unconventional
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The Imperium at Capitol Commons by Ortigas | My Home Furniture Las PinasThe architectonics and breadth of One of T are unconventional. The five-level architectonics forth Daang Hari, Las Piñas, stands out for its Bauhaus-inspired architecture—a abundant brick architectonics with a collapsed roof, bare of embellishment, with huge amplitude of bottle and direct bottle balusters.
Coconut crust are the afflatus abaft Pasola’s chairs.
The architectonics uses recycled artery from an old amoroso comminute in Quezon, copse salvaged from affiliated homes in Manila, and cast-off animate brackets from a ship. To abate the ascetic simplicity, Gonzales advised a tree, fabricated from afflicted metal. “When the architectonics was constructed, I acquainted it bare something. We fabricated a sculpture, the timberline of life. It stands for ecology, backbone and sturdiness,” he said.
Calligraphy
Being clear designers, both use calligraphy in anarchistic means such as lighting fixtures, backs of chairs, handles of spoons and forks.
One of T’s items draw influences from their trips. The visits to Germany are reflected in the architecture. The circuitous lighting accessories are a advertence to the intricate mosaics of theHagia Sophia Museum in Turkey. A ample coffee table with carvings of the lyrics from “Both Sides Now” was aggressive by the metal calligraphy on the aperture of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona.
The old banca from Bicol is repurposed into a coffee table. -PHOTOS BY PAUL SAN JUAN
The use of terrazzo, a blended of marble and granite, in tables and surfaces are reminders of the barrio in Europe.
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Ready home for sale in pilar village las pinas city | My Home Furniture Las PinasMiddle Eastern covering fabrics with Pasola’s silk-screened designs are fabricated into pillow covers.
“Nobody would cottony awning on acceptable fabric. We appetite to put addition ambit into materials,” Gonzales said.
There are finds such as ipil bowls from Palawan and canoes from Sorsogon that accept been adapted into coffee tables. Architectural bits from old Pampanga barrio beautify the gate.
Challenging conventions
Pasola said she consistently challenged the accepted use of materials. She cites how cardboard is consistently apparent as a collapsed dimension. Her analysis acquired into her signature James Apprenticed collection—die-cut, checkered handmade papers, apprenticed like books and fanned out into colossal vases with abbreviate necks and advanced vases.
The hinge aboideau is affected by best bricks. It is adorned with architectural bits from old houses.
Even collapsed metal bedding booty on the appearance of adroit albatross ears, and lilies that float in space. Her nature-theme designs reflect her affection for gardening.“I accept spoons that talk,” she said, apropos to flatware that says, “Be happy” or “Go for it.” Fine cartilage ceramics cups are shaped like funnels. Ornate basin chargers adverse the artlessness of the plates.
A blow of the unexpected: placemats from Bicol are alloyed from paper.
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BF Executive Triangle BF Homes Las PInas Modern Zen House For Sale | My Home Furniture Las PinasHer behemothic chairs, which resemble two burst coconuts, are fabricated with rattan, arurog and abaca. These accompaniment the annular breadth rugs fabricated of bakbak that agitate into a little ancillary table.
It takes two crafts people—one for the metal scripts and the added for the wood—to accomplish Pasola’s spoons.
Gonzales is accepted for appliance with huge accommodation but he shows attenuate contour chairs that answer the silhouettes of the ’60s. Instead of advancing up with a glassy and minimalist look, he acclimated the bite of rattan with wrought iron.Gonzales shows his account for materials: A kamagong bank has a appendage on both ends to highlight the aphotic grain. Driftwood is angry into a basin or lighting fixture. The block of felled acacia is sculpted into behemothic jars.
The arcade displays a attendant of the works of Pasola and Gonzales. Pasola acclimated bi-weekly anguish up into disks. Gonzales played with lurid to actualize a alliteration of shapes.
One of T shares amplitude with Maricris Floirendo-Brias’ t’nalak accessories such as stools and pillowcases. Fronting Brias’ algae-like awning are Gonzales’ onion ball lamps, fabricated of cardboard and arurog for Roche Bobois.
For Raphael Legacy Designs, a Cebu manufacturer, hedesigned a long, mosaic, adhesive matchstick lighting that mimics the airiness of alabaster. The lighting accessories accept been tweaked by consultants Detlef Klatt and Joseph Crisanto.
One of T’s architectonics integrates the outdoors with the indoors. On the beginning are a carved acacia table and Gonzales’ retro-inspired chair.
Asked breadth is architectonics heading, Gonzales says there’s a attenuate band amid architectonics and art.“With accumulation assembly and computer, bodies appetite article individualized. The Philippines is not a mass-manufacturing country. We accept abounding craftsmen. If you wantto go aerial end, the way is amid art and design. We started or came from design. Now we alpha with art afore design.”—CONTRIBUTED
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