‘Nothing matches’ in this newlywed interior designer’s home just as she likes it
Written by Marga Buenaventura
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endIndex: Interior designer Martina Bautista’s Laguna home with her husband features all the furniture she’s been collecting for years. Photo courtesy of MARTINA BAUTISTA
Space has never felt more essential to us than in the past year, as we grapple with the concept of living and working from home. We not only crave it both physically and mentally but we seek out the best ways to make our spaces all the more livable. We add plants, buy furniture from Facebook Marketplace, and add the kind of wall art that’ll be nice to look at over breakfast. For the first time ever, perhaps, we are finally going to figure out what to do with the odd corner in the house that no one ever looks at.
(Photo from Frankie & Friends General Store / Facebook)
The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), through its overseas trade office in Sydney, said the opening of Frankie & Friends in Australia last March 30 was a “testament to the capability of Philippine companies to globalize their brands.”
It added that the expansion provides a sustainable development platform for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) to serve a bigger audience: the affluent and lucrative Australian lifestyle and gifting market valued at AUD20 billion.
Started in 2018 with a shop at the SM Aura in Taguig City and eventually in two centrally-located stores in the Philippines, Frankie & Friends’ invasion of the Australian shores provides inspiration to small businesses who are intentional with how they create their products that falls into three categories: sustainability, slow and ethical fashion, and small-batch handmade creations.