The purpose was to propel the Philippines into becoming a design leader in Asia.
 
We have shown how we manipulate natural materials. My metal is raw. It also expresses my personality. I just want to create something extraordinary from the ordinary.
 
Take GI (galvanised iron) wire and the way I weld it. It’s an inexpensive material that is hand-welded. When you put all the elements together, it results in something that has never been done.” Jewelry designer turned furniture maker Ann takes the tropical-meets-modern equation and turns it on its head: she gives her steel furniture the fragile texture of orchid roots or ribbons of seaweed, as in her spherical Cocoon chairs.
 
 

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