It echoes the global furniture firm’s exquisite design, sustainable technology—and most important, the user’s personal touch and love of family...
A businessman stumbles on an old brick house, and with the help of architect Dan Lichauco and interior designer Roan Espino, transforms it into his dream house
WHEN HINDY Weber Tantoco and her family decided to trade the daily stress of living in the city for life...
For most executives, a business trip means being away from family and the comforts of home. For Alby Xerez-Burgos and his wife Maricar, however, it is an opportunity to spend time with their children at their home away from home.
IN 1797, Napoleon Bonaparte, after crossing the Papal States in his Italian campaign, reached Ancona, a port and trading city in northeastern Italy. Seeing the troops, the marquis of the Palazzo Trionfi ran to his fortress called the Rocca Priora on the city border. He then opened fire with two outdated cannons.
By combining new elements with heirloom furniture, for instance, she has struck a harmony where textures, shapes and styles blend...
The foremost fashion designer has shaped the jungles of Majayjay, Laguna, into a modern mountain retreat. He left no stone unturned–literally
From the street, the house on the corner is a head-turner. It is eye-catching because it rethinks the relationship between...
A certain mountaintop in the Visayas might still be a patch of wild terrain today if Michel Lhuillier had followed a divergent career path in his youth. “He wanted to become a farmer when he graduated from De La Salle (University),” revealed his wife, Dr. Amparito Llamas Lhuillier, the light-heartedness evident in her voice as she shared the fond memory. Instead, his dream of a pastoral life was deferred for a few decades while he pursued a more lucrative trajectory in jewelry and finance. Now, after raising their family and building a business empire together, the indefatigable couple is enjoying that long-awaited bucolic lifestyle in the hills high above Cebu.
ASK ANY design consultant or homeowner who’s “OC” (obsessive-compulsive) about tidiness and removing clutter at home, and chances are, he or she will say it’s just a matter of attitude.
