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Each project is overseen by our Creative Director, Sarah Canlas, a sought-after architect who is all about the human scale, and our Managing Director, Anna Canlas, who comes from an editorial background. Our associate in Milan, Julia Villamonte, leads our concierge arm, Okyo, buying antique and contemporary furniture sourced within the entire EU and Switzerland.
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12/10 in the daytime
Posted by: Anna Canlas
In their words, a non-traditional izakaya serving flavor and produce driven small plates accompanied by an extensive selection of beverages, 12/10 was a dream to design. Revisiting it when they opened for daytime, we loved to see the blackened grain of wood on the tables, the iron curtain when you enter, the shadows from the blinds that mimic their logo, and how nicely the brick floor wore from rough to smooth by the demands of full service.
Architects: Sarah Canlas, Anna Asuncion
Clients: Gab Bustos and Thea de Rivera
Location: 8 Rockwell, Lopez Drive, Rockwell Center, Makati City
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Catalina’s
Posted by: Anna Canlas
PALAWAN — Home of the best pasalubong from Puerto Princesa, Catalina’s is a bakeshop, cafe and future classic for coconut choux pastries and hot meals after you deplane. (The airport is on the same street.) Service is cheerful, the espresso blend dialed in, and we quite like how it turned out: the curved work surface to cash wrap, and a retail shelf gently dividing the ordering and seating areas. We brought in Clara Cayosa for the branding, and Brian Ver for the design development with Sarah, who, while making the floral arrangements, described it as “having the courage to do something so unruly.”
Architects: Sarah Canlas, Brian Ver
Clients: Dom Hernandez
Branding: Clara Cayosa
Location: Rizal Avenue, Puerto Princesa, Philippines
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Bun Appetit at The Corner House
Posted by: Anna Canlas
SAN JUAN — Staff, the primary users of the space designed, were all smiles at the soft opening. Same for us who had our first taste of clam toast, served shabby chic on enamel plates. We love how half the space is given over to the kitchen, the nice toasted smells, the variations in the tonal rust floor, and the clever front cabinet to keep employees’ belongings. Good information design in the menu, too, soon to be hung. A restaurant is many small (and good) choices, like the hit of brine in the lobster roll, and architects Sarah and Bri, not planning, but arriving, in matching mariner stripes.
Architects: Sarah Canlas, Brian Ver
Clients: Lawrence and Maniya Cua
Location: The Corner House, P Guevarra corner Recto, San Juan
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Shared Space
Posted by: Anna Canlas
Starting its life as a dispatch area for e-commerce orders, Shared Space is a small slice of the soul of our sister Dani, the coffee brand Type A. Through one set of doors, you see the roaster. Through another, the cold brew bottling area. But it is right here, up front, within reclaimed wood floors and marble counters, that Dani transplanted her own Linea Mini so she could serve cups of coffee to the people of the neighborhood and those that visit. We even spilled out into the open air, with a revolving cast of potted plants amid concrete benches that somehow feel soft when you sit on them. Or catch the deliveries of milk cartons momentarily as the rider comes in. Sarah calls it non-design.
Architects: Sarah Canlas
Clients: Type A
Location: 7 Sheridan, Mandaluyong
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