Designs for designers

Discriminating people who live and breathe style have found their new haven right along a busy Greenhills street. That place, called FurnItalia, has the perfect furniture to match one’s taste and personality. For designers in the know, the search ends in this three-storey lifestyle store that may well be called the Philippines’ definitive house of style.

FurnItalia is the country’s first and only distributor of Italy’s premier furniture brands. In this spacious showroom, the works and ideas of international interpreters in the field of design such as Lord Norman Foster, Richard Meier, Philippe Starck, Ron Arad, Rodolfo Dordoni, Vittorio Livi and F.A. Porsche come to life.

World-renowned names in furniture such as Poltrona Frau, Galli, Longhi, Comfort, Fiam and Penta feature an endless collection of high quality home and office furnishings used by royalty, movie stars and designers from all over the globe. New brands Molteni & C’s system furniture and sofas, and Fontana Arte’s lights are the latest masterpieces shipped direct from Italy.

FurnItalia managing director Florence Ko said that designers who have discovered FurnItalia are amazed by the store’s diversity of styles. The extensive selections are not only fashionable and timeless, they have such high quality that they deserve to be future family heirlooms.

Viva FurnItalia!

(Visit the Poltrona Frau showroom at Furnitalia, Designmix Building, 59 Connecticut St., Northeast Greenhills, San Juan, or call 722-0156 and 722-0389.)

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An Italian Summer Of Fashion

Travel in Italy through the ’60s — the colors, scents, and accents of the beautiful isle of Capri and the Amalfina coast embodied in Furla’s Spring Summer 2004 collection. This hourglass-shaped island found in the province of Naples is known for its exceptional wealth of natural beauty. Capri is blessed with Italy’s most dramatic coastlines and stunning scenery: craggy cliffs, white beaches, charming villas, olives groves, fragrant lemon trees, narrow winding roads, and garden terraces filled with flowers.

The extraordinary enchantment of Capri’s landscape blends well with the refined tastes in fashion during the ’60s era. In the early ’60s, fashion was pretty and feminine, like tailored suits, hats, and gloves. Traces left by the refined elegance of fashion icons Jacqueline Kennedy, Maria Callas, and Audrey Hepburn. The latest Furla collection expresses the inimitable charm and allure of the 60s style divas set against the backdrop of southern Italy’s finest jewel.

Be sure to check it out at a FURLA store near you!

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La Union Sightseeing

After showing you the enchanting province of Vigan with guest former Ilocos governor Chavit Singson, we now feature the beautiful locale of La Union. Interesting conversation with our guests, the lovely persons of the influential Ortega clan, will be tha highlight of the episode. Remember to set your alarms to 11 p.m. tonight and tune in to RPN9!