Tuesday, April 28, 2009

island mother

what i love about mangenguey is helena, and vice versa.

through food and design, you can already see her genuine love for everything filipino.

she sees the beauty in everything... like in this traditional sari-sari window she uses for her kitchen...


or this church pedestal for her guest book...


this console table she designed with a filipino artist -- the legs are actually alibata letters!


this traditional filipino weave as the backdrop of the bathroom mirrors.


and perhaps my favorite element in her house, the decorative blocks that you and i both love.  these things are traditionally looked down upon by others -- but we've always liked 'em, and helena does too!


but i think it's her relentless passion, against all odds, to create her unbelievable vision -- a self-sustaining utopia for artists and internationalists on a remote island in a country that she has adopted as her own -- that i absolutely adore.


kind of like leo de caprio's 'the beach' with a bit of more taste, dontchatink?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

great observations...well-said...as for me, I kept thinking about what we were goning to eat and when...stupid city folk like me..hehe

flower said...

hehe no that's a good point... i guess she still has to work on a choosable menu and work in a merienda.