All rooms are furnished
with abaca and mahogany furniture for a natural feel.
Not exact matches
The frame is made of
abaca rope
with a natural finish.
During her travels to the Philippines, Jones met
with talented artisans that became enthused to utilize the
abaca plant, their weaving skills and creativity to earn their livelihoods and enhance their communities.
Each room has floor - to - ceiling glass windows, and the hotel is decorated
with materials such as coco - twig white resin, crushed mahogany seeds, and
abaca laminated glass.
But the payoff comes when you check - in to Ananyana Beach Resort, where the 12 luxe thatched - roof huts have bamboo - framed king - size beds and the lounge is outfitted
with regionally made rattan and
abaca furniture.
The only destination in Philippine currency that I haven't personally been to (which remains high on my bucketlist) is the Tubbataha Reefs Natural Park, which can be seen at the reverse side of 1,000 peso bill, along
with the South Sea pearl and the Mindanao design for Tinalak or Ikat - dyed
abaca.
The exhibition was developed through an independent study graduate course at Chicago's Columbia College led by Jessica Cochran, who
with co-curators Elizabeth Isakson - Dado, Hannah King, and C.J. Mace, invited more than a dozen artists to imagine new artworks to be made from
abaca and cotton paper by graduate students at Columbia.
In some cases the surface has been gilded
with gold leaf, in others the translucency of the
abaca paper is visible through the marks and stitches that barely hold the works together.
In her variable edition, Endless Outcomes, Campbell developed an «arrested mobile» using handmade paper,
with embedded strings and shaped color components encapsulated between a colored base sheet and a translucent
abaca paper overlay.
Joan Hall, Acid Ocean (2012), printed, cut, pulp painted, hand - formed paper, Mylar, acrylic and cast resin pins made
with sand and beach detritus, fibers:
abaca, kozo, gampi, 64 x 245 x 18 inches (variable dimensions).
Linen, cotton,
abaca, pigments, water, and methyl cellulose: since 1976 a small, non-profit paper studio in New York City has empowered some of the most influential artists of the day to experiment
with these and other papermaking materials.
One fiber,
abaca is extracted from the trunk of the plant, a relative of the banana, requiring an arduous process
with each stalk cut in strips, scraped to remove the pulp, washed and dried, and its key to the economic viability of farming communities in the Philippines.
Charmingly rustic, this place mat is crafted of strong
abaca fibers
with a beautifully hand - braided design.