The Tropical House: Cutting edge design in the Philippines – Tropical Contemporary

We bought this book (The Tropical House: Cutting edge design in the Philippines – Tropical Contemporary) before Christmas. Fully-packed with the awesomest contemporary tropical interior designs.

Amazing! We bought our copy from National Bookstore, and the price is P1950.00. Checking it Amazon, it’s only 26.37 USD. I should have ordered our copy from Amazon.com instead. Just consolidate the purchase with some other stuff we bought online last Dec. from Amazon too. Damn, a fella who recommends online shopping, why the hell I didn’t look it up at Amazon. Heniweyz…

The book is million times recommended. For pros or amateurs, doesn’t matter. Get a copy here (National Bookstore) or here (Amazon). Authored by Elizabeth Reyes, Photography by Luca Invernizzi Tettoni.

I’m telling you, this tropical interior is one good choice. I’m recommending it to people I know who are renovating/building their homes (exactly 2 of them). The minimalist design and this new contemporary home style are top two in my book, so to speak.

Sample pages below, featuring houses of some of Philippines’ sophisticated elite people. A bonus for us, the photography is great, kinda inspires us to shoot our products a la Tettoni! (As homage to Senor Luca, I, Leonardo Que Corleone, shot the book on top of a raffia-abaca combo. Now that’s tropical!) The featured architectural design, the interior, the showcased style, the photos, the furniture and decors, the book is an inspiration.

Description…
The Tropical House celebrates a growing trend toward stylish globalization in interior design. More than 25 stunning houses and condos in and around Manila, the Philippines, are showcased, each evoking a distinctive tropical-modern fusion style that is gaining popularity around the world. All these fine residences comprise a synthesis of East-West trends and contemporary furnishings—as international sleek modernist furniture merges with “soulful creations” by local designers in natural hardwoods and other tropical materials.

Over 250 full-color photographs of outstanding Filipino residences will inspire readers with their diverse, contemporary designs. From vintage glamour to classic modern with bold artful accents and the clean, sophisticated look known as “contemporary chic,” this book showcases the myriad tastes of the Philippines. The selection covers modern designs referred to as Minimalist or Zen and admires today’s Global Eclectics, those well-traveled collectors of beautiful objects from East and West. Furthermore, it celebrates the individualists who mix European furniture with acutely creative accents from local designers or who frame edgy artworks by Filipino artists with clean, contemporary architecture. Such are the globalized interiors of today’s tropical Asia.

Since you’re already here reading this, why not browse some more and get some tropical stuff for your home as well.

Face of the week #12: Peek-A-Buddha

Peek-A-Buddha

This is post 12 of 20 of our Face of the Week series. Shot in black & white. It’s a combo of 2 items the we sell here at Leoque.com. First, the peaceful Buddha head and second, the calming hand deco.

Wind chime, No dime

Why we were not able to sell 1 million units of this native wind chime? The answer my friend is not blowing in the wind.

The answers are… (1) I erroneously linked the ethnic wood chime to the handcarved horse — now edited. (2) the initial photo of the exotic chime is subpar. (4) With specs like “wooden wood chime”, no one will buy that! — now edited. (4) It’s not on display at our pick up location. Things will change tomorrow. I’ll be expecting a purchase order of 10000 units from Walmart tomorrow.

Try this, tri-slot, tri-cabinet Contressa cabinet

Woot! 2 New photos for the CONTRESSA Cabinet Console.

Yippee! Check out the ample space for books!

Yay! It has an adequate table top space for table top furnishing

Yahoo! 3 cabinets to hide way clutter.

Rattan-made Pocketbooks - drawers storage

If you have too many pocket books that you want to store, or if you want to hide some of these pocketbooks, this rattan-made stack of drawers can function as your mini bookcase. See the complete photos and specs of this rattan storage furniture here.

Meet Tiger, Kobe, Jackie and Lisa

tiger kobe jackie and leslie

An relatively old figurine set in our home, maybe 7 yrs old now. Featuring little black kiddo athletes. The names: Tiger, Kobe, Jackie and Leslie.

The set has its own share of “injuries” and breakages. In fact, I’ll never throw, give or sell this set away because I invested a lot of cash and time into this. I believe, I already consumed 20 tubes of Mightybond (or Bulldog glue?) just to make the pieces play stand again. :-)

Nudes (Mega Square) by Grange Books

Another book inside Leoque. A mega square book, title is “Nudes.” And there’s no denying the title. Over 250 pages of tasteful nakedness & nudity of different mediums and art forms (sculpture and painting). These books we got serve triple-purpose. First we leoque look at these books and somehow make push us and inspire us to be more creative and imaginative with both design and photography. And second use is, we use the books as props when shooting storage furniture, side tables, coffee table, bookshelves, etc. Third, we collect/buy these art & trade books to beef up our soon-to-be-made home or office library.

Some sample pages below…

Surprise… surprise… value of this book over at Biblio.com is 97USD.

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