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!!
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| Renaissance? |
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| Decor |
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| Lamps and Chandelier |
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| More of them |
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| And another shop |
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| More lamps and abubots |
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| colored glass!!! |
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| sari-sari pang items |
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| metallic collectibles |
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| paintings |
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| remember those little alcohol bottles? |
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| Francis in Bangkal!! |
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| old furniture |
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| Leopard chair |
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| old style chair |
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| I should've bought this!! |
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| Those blue globes were lighted from the inside and were rotating! |
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| 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!! |
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| sony old radio |
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| older radio? |
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| remember this painting in summit? |
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| interesting piece. love the color perspective. |
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| 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. |
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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
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found a corner with a table for 2, we were the only ones there
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candid photo taken by francis
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| Artist's Initial: Michellin Herbert |
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| 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. |
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| candid shot kuno... |
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liver terrine and bread for appetizer
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| main course: pepper pork tenderloin steak |
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| 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!!
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brochure said they didn't cut trees but used wood from torn down houses, so they're recycled
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