Leonardo Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Louis de Corlieu and Owen Churchill are just a few notables who have taken a stab at figuring out ways to improve a human’s mobility in water by designing fins. But fins have always been a part of island life. Churchill, who patented fins in 1940, was inspired by a group of natives from Tahiti who would weave small mats from palm fronds that they would dip into a tub of hot tar which, when cooled, they would tie to their feet to swim and free drive into the ocean. The Stonesets Fin tables designed by Nazareno/Lichauco is a contemporary nod to the beautiful beach areas and inhabitants of Cebu, where Stonesets is located.