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Kenneth Cobonpue was named the first Maison et Objet Designer of the Year for Asia in 2014. The Filipino creative has been awarded the title for his contributions and impact in the field furniture and design—most notably for developing and manufacturing woven rattan furniture for indoor and outdoor use. [7]
Logo of the Chamber of Furniture Industries of the Philippines. Chamber of Furniture Industries of the Philippines (CFIP) is a non-stock, non-profit trade association of furniture manufacturers, suppliers and service providers in the Philippines. The association was established in September 1966 and incorporated in 1967. It operates the annual ...
Skylab 3's Saturn IB at night, July 1973 Skylab in orbit in 1973 as flown, docking ports in view. Three crewed missions, designated Skylab 2, Skylab 3, and Skylab 4, were made to Skylab in the Apollo command and service modules. The first crewed mission, Skylab 2, launched on May 25, 1973, atop a Saturn IB and involved extensive repairs to the ...
Project Santa Barbara was initiated by the administration of Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos and it involved the Philippine Navy and a group of scientists. [1] It was conceived amidst the United States withdrawal of its armed forces in Indochina and in anticipation that the US would also withdraw its forces stationed in the Philippines.
Raymond Loewy Collection of Photographs and Audiovisual Materials Archived June 4, 2018, at the Wayback Machine (1905–1980) at Hagley Museum and Library. This collection is composed of images of design work Loewy and his firm conducted for corporate American and foreign clients; Loewy's personal photographs; and his speeches and interviews.
The first predecessor to the current National Museum of the Philippines organization was the Museo-Biblioteca de Filipinas which was established by royal decree by the Spanish colonial government in the Philippines on August 12, 1887. Its first museum-library opened at the Casa de la Moneda along Cabildo Street on October 24, 1891
Andrés Roxas Soriano Sr. (born Andrés Soriano y Roxas; February 8, 1898 – December 30, 1964 [1]) was a Spanish Filipino industrialist. Described by The New York Times in 1964 as "one of the most dominant business personalities in the western Pacific area," [2] he was best known for expanding the original San Miguel Brewery evolving into San Miguel Corporation.
Motorcycle taxis in the Philippines usually have sidecars, or seats extended sideways, often by use of a T-shaped crossbeam. The latter type of taxi is known as habal-habal or a skylab , [ 11 ] owing to its crude resemblance to the Skylab space station which orbited the Earth in the 1970s.