Bangkal FADventures

FADventures = Francis & Audee Duavit Ventures
Bangkal Adventure

Long weekend again in the philippines so we decided to go to Bangkal and check out the thrift shops. Lots of antique stuff, ate in a french resto, and ended up in a ecological furniture shop in East Service Road Muntinlupa.  Such a great Saturday!!

Renaissance?

Decor

Lamps and Chandelier

More of them

And another shop

More lamps and abubots

colored glass!!!

sari-sari pang items

metallic collectibles

paintings

remember those little alcohol bottles?

Francis in Bangkal!!

old furniture

Leopard chair

old style chair

I should've bought this!!

Those blue globes were lighted from the inside and were rotating!

seriously, this piece is a lipstick holder. this is sort of a music box and the door of the merry-go-round had pockets for lipstick. hanep!!

sony old radio

older radio?

remember this painting in summit?

interesting piece.  love the color perspective.

comics!! baka sa amin pa binili yan. we sold tons of comic books in one of our garage sales. papa used to buy comics during his flight and sell it in greenhills. i got to follow X-men stories.

we had lunch here, walking distance, used to be fat michaels, now french resto, fine dining...and we were in our chaka outfits, ok lang Bangkal naman e

found a corner with a table for 2, we were the only ones there

candid photo taken by francis

the resto was owned by a french guy who was now in france for vacation, it was also an art gallery and the painting were for sale!  see the foreigner at the left, he's the artist of some of the works there, friend of french owner

i wanted this for our bathroom. the title was "written in the stars" by michellin herbert that guy in the other picture. painted on acrylic. now on sale

Artist's Initial:  Michellin Herbert

not a painting. it's a photo taken in palawan at night time. french photographer doing experimental photos of rocks in water at 7:00 in the evening.

candid shot kuno...

liver terrine and bread for appetizer

main course:  pepper pork tenderloin steak

dessert, banana flambe with vanilla ice cream. the caramelized sugar had rhum. masarap!

Then we were given a brochure to this furniture shop owned by a french couple...and guess what, it was in alabang!  By the way, the map in the brochure said it was beside "Ellitista Restaurant", which sounded dinghy...and it was!!  Hahaha!!

brochure said they didn't cut trees but used wood from torn down houses, so they're recycled