MOSS Manila Home store façade
With summer almost over, it is a wonderful time to refresh any interior space. Inspired by the freshness of spring and luxe of summer, Manila-based Moss Manila Home (www.mossmanilahome.com) offers its latest home collection that nods the posh Miami Beach style with a chic spin.
Located at 1 Granada Street, Gilmore, Quezon City, Moss Manila showroom has new pieces that exude a resort glam vibe, highlighting elegant forms with modern details. The new collection features lounge club chairs, Lucite trunk tables and bar cabinets with oversized pyramid studs. Modern retro pieces like ottomans in lush sheepskin-like fabric and console and side tables with beveled mirror and brass bases are also available for viewing. Locally designed and manufactured, the furniture pieces are beautifully displayed with décor that mostly come from India, Brazil, the United States and Thailand.
Born from an interior and events design company, Moss Manila Home envisions a bold and eclectic design that has a stark contrast of timelessness and edginess. While each piece works individually, there is a harmonious design dialogue of glamour all throughout that makes it perfect for stylish abodes.
Moss Manila Home’s owner and chief interior designer is Cyndi Fernandez. Together with her sister Happy Fernandez-Victorino, this designing duo creates each piece and arranges them in their beautiful lifestyle home store.
Complimentary service
Moss Manila offers complimentary interior styling services with a minimum purchase. The store’s team of board-certified interior designers can help transform new homes, spruce up a room, or create a gallery wall. Projects can range from creating custom furniture, accessorizing a space to doing a total makeover. These talented designers can bring in the décor and complete the finishing touches themselves. They also offer personalized design expertise and incorporate Moss Manila Home products into their spaces.
Paintings are not only wonderful accent pieces but are also great investments. Check out the exciting and awe-inspiring selection of artworks that are highlighted at the Leon Gallery’s Spectacular Mid-Year Auction 2015 happening today at 2 p.m. at the G/F, Eurovilla 1, Rufino corner Legazpi Streets, Legazpi Village, Makati City. For more details, visit https://leon-gallery.com, e-mail info@leon-gallery.com, or call +632 8562781.
MOSS Manila Home Second Resort Collection
For auction
From old masters to contemporary artists, there will be paintings, antiques and furniture for auction. Among the art pieces to go under the hammer, “The Gold Whisperer,” a finely detailed dreamscape by New York-based surrealist John Jaylo, signed and dated 2015, is a special lot as the proceeds of its sale will benefit a kidney transplant patient through the efforts of broadcaster Julius Babao.
Benedicto Cabrera’s “Iza as Sabel,” the portrait of beautiful actress Iza Calzado in the form of Sabel, the quintessential likeness of a bag lady and street wanderer that first caught Cabrera’s eye in 1964, served as the poster image of “Sabel: Love and Passion,” presented in part by the Bencab Art Foundation, which had its world premier gala in April 2015.
This piece, the proceeds of its sale will help fund BenCab 50 Creative Years and the BenCab Museum’s other projects related to art and the environment, resumes Bencab’s ever recurring theme of women in draperies and is a contemporary rendering of Sisa from Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere.”
BENCAB’S Iza as Sabel
Ronald Ventura’s startling work “Journey,” signed and dated 2006, puts forth multiple realities, with the horse and rider as well as the supple treatment of the musculature—marmoreal in tone—derived from classical art.
The largest Anita Magsaysay-Ho work ever to be offered at auction, “Fish Harvest at Dawn” from 1979, is another monumental piece to go on sale. A celebration of sisterhood and memories of her youth, it harkens to her ‘Green Period’ and brings to fore Anita’s dramatic and ethereal play of light and shadows.
Other pieces to look out for are those by such masters as Fernando Amorsolo, Ang Kiukok, Jose Joya, Cesar Legaspi, Jerry Elizalde Navarro, H.R. Ocampo and Romeo Olazo, as well as pieces from some of the hottest local contemporary artists including Rodel Tapaya, Andres Barrioquinto and Buen Calubayan.