The Mapa Ring
Php 5980 or US$ 133 (satin-sanded finish)
The Mapa Ring is exactly just that – a map on a heavy-set solid all-silver barrel ring, handcrafted in the Philippines. The design is a reference to Brian Tenorio’s originally designed Day and Night Ring which was available in white gold or platinum.
Panata sa Pilak
Php 4980 or US$111
A ring-set trio with oxidized engraved text from the Panatang Makabayan, this ring set can be bought as a set or as individual tokens of allegiance.
(click title for full text) Shoe Designer Brian Tenorio designs in Silver for Filigrenasia—the Silver Gallery
The PILAK-PILIPINAS Collection — PRESS RELEASE DECEMBER 8, 2009
New York-based Filipino Shoe Designer Brian Tenorio is launching a new collection of absolutely-inspired silver jewelry for Filigrenasia–the largest retailer of fine silver Jewelry in the Philippines.
“I’ve been based in New York now for almost two years and I miss my hometown Manila/Marikina at every turn. Sure, some of the best shops and museums and places in the world can be found in New York, but the best times of my life (so far) happened in the Philippines. I feel that somehow, every Filipino living overseas wants to go home,” says the designer.
The pieces are sleek and subtle handcrafted pieces in premium silver. According to Tenorio, the designs seek to fulfill a very personal need. “It’s really cool that the Philippine map, for example, is visible everywhere—on shirts, polos, accessories, BRILLIANT WORK!—but I’ve always wanted to have it on me but it has got to match certain more-urban looks whenever I am in the city. When dressed up for cocktails or for work, I’d like to have smaller details that would express who I am and where I am from so that was when I thought that it definitely has got to be jewelry.”
The pieces are priced from Php 1190 to Php 6980 (US$25 to 150). Tenorio made sure that the pieces will be accessibly priced (especially in Dollars) as the styles are also targeted to sell to visiting balikbayans coming home for the holidays. These pieces make the perfect gift for our foreigner friends as well! For more inquiries, contact Filigrenasia at telephone numbers 6341681 or 9510156 or the designer via info@briantenorio.com. Shop for these pieces at the Filigrenasia stores as soon as possible as there is already an order queue for some of the more popular pieces.
Tenorio is the first Filipino to be part of the Design Management Program of Pratt Institute in New York – recently cited as one of the best design programs in the world by Businessweek in 2009. He is currently researching on establishing National Design Policies in developing countries. He has also recently exhibited his designer casket collection, Lux Mortem last November and will be launching his new designer shoe line at the Philippine Consulate on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan this May 2010.
All designs patent pending by Brian Tenorio / Filigrenasia 2009
The Mapa Ring
Php 4980 or US$111 (polished finish variation with oxidized detailing)
The Mapa Pendant
Php 1190 or US$27
All 7107 islands in silver, glazed over a sea of oxidized material, the Mapa Pendant is a charm for the homesick.
-(click title for full text) Tehran-born Filipino-American Brian Tenorio is a New York-based design and communications consultant and also the first Filipino in Pratt Institute’s Design Management Program (launched 1995 in United States).
He is also one of the most widely-publicized designers in the Philippines. His design company, Tenorio Manila (www.tenorio.asia), won the Battle of the Business Plans competition in the country, and was a semi-finalist in the Harvard Business School 2005 Entrepreneurial Idol in Boston, Massachusetts. He is a winner of the 2007 Dutch-sponsored Philippine Bid Challenge (a satellite search of the International Business in Development Network Foundation) and also the Philippine Junior Chamber International’s Creative Young Entrepreneur for 2007. Tenorio’s shoes have been shown in art exhibitions in New York and in Manila and were also included in the book 50 Must-Buys from Manila launched December 2008.
Before launching his product design business, Tenorio worked as a graphic designer and communications consultant for multi-nationals, design firms, and corporations in the Philippines, Europe, and the United States. He has won design awards in Asia, including the Asian Printing Press Awards in Singapore and the Philippine National Book Awards (2008 Best Designer). He also worked as a correspondent for Benetton’s COLORS Magazine.
He finished the Managing the Arts Program at the Asian Institute of Management (2002), after graduating a few years prior at the Ateneo de Manila University (2000). He also taught design and aesthetics in the Philippines at Manila’s School of Fashion and the Arts and Introduction to Design at the Communications Department of the Ateneo de Manila University.
The Araw Pendant
Php 6980 or US$155
Designer Brian Tenorio insisted that at least one design should be flag-ish through and through. The Araw Pendant is a vision handcrafted in premium solid silver.
The Pinoy Geomet
Php 4850 or US$108
The many faces of the Filipino in this almost humorous depiction in silver, the Pinoy Geomet ring is made of premium solid handcrafted silver.
