Furniture designer Ann Pamintuan believes in the value of product innovation
Posted on | June 30, 2010 |
Internationally renowned furniture designer Ann Pamintuan encourages local designers to strive for innovation in their products in order to sell to a bigger international market.
“There are a lot of furniture makers so mahirap magkompetensiya. You have to come up with something different – use new technology, new materials to create new design and sell it at the right price. I think we will make it,” Pamintuan says in an interview.
The Davao-based designer was featured in the recent Design Talks lecture held at the Ayala Museum in Makati City.
Pamintuan is the first Asian woman designer to be included in the prestigious International Design Yearbook (in 2002) and has received international recognition for her “cocoon chair,” a fretwork of wire meshed together to form an elegant yet functional cocoon-like furniture.
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