Artist Jinggoy Buensuceso teams up with luxury furniture and homeware brand Casa Bella Home for dis/order — a must-see exhibit that will be on display until Dec.18 at the Casa Bella showroom at 8 Jupiter St., Makati City.
It all began when visual artist Jinggoy Buensuceso’s works caught the eyes of Casa Bella’s Stephanie Coyiuto-Tay. “I would see his works in my good friend’s homes,” she shares. “When I reached out to him [Jinggoy], we realized that we had the same passion in connecting people to a world of design through different methods,” says Stephanie, who has always been fascinated with museums and the arts. An art lover and collector herself, she and her husband Joseph Tay Jr. have always wanted to invite artists over at the Casa Bella showroom, so that they could showcase their works.
“Celebrated designers of our furniture are also artists and sculptors, such as Ron Arad who has designed pieces for Moroso. Thus, it seems like a great idea to invite a celebrated Filipino contemporary sculptor, Jinggoy Buensuceso, to collaborate with Casa Bella for an exhibit,” explains Joseph.
Buensuceso, on the other hand, has always been interested in finding new venues to put his sculptural works on display. And on the crossroads of luxury design and art, Buensuceso and the Coyiuto-Tays met. “Casa Bella is a great stage for my art to be imagined in people’s homes,” quips the artist. “Doing this collaboration with them and the Casa Bella team makes me feel so welcomed and part of their family.”
With the universe as its inspiration, this collection was made by folding a variety of powder coated metals—a material that Buensuceso is already familiar with. Titled dis/order, the collection is “all about the infinite folds of the universe and how we are all deeply connected to it,” explains Buensuceso.
“The universe is forever evolving and unfolding in an infinite sequence which presents us with unfamiliar landscapes. This repeated occurrence becomes therapeutic to our body and soul such that this seemingly disrupted reality slowly becomes our chrysalis, our cosmos,” he further shares about this 24-piece collection.
It took a year for him to complete this, giving everything he had to each piece. “Solidifying a concept, executing it into a tangible piece, and finding the right balance of mind, heart, and soul is my biggest challenge. It’s about overcoming the uncertainty of how materials will work with the concept and putting your story and soul in every piece.”
The collaboration then culminated in an evening of celebration and thanksgiving, when Casa Bella trained the spotlight on Jinggoy Buensuceso and his works strategically last November. Casa Bella also invited interior stylist Glenn Cuevo to create exceptional vignettes to celebrate Buensuceso’s artworks. For Cuevo, design transcends composition, balance, and control. Beyond aesthetics, his creations are subtle, elegant expressions of that rare shared vision that can emerge only from a close collaboration between designer and client.
“I want them to feel their deeper connection with the cosmos and realize that they are made of stardust. They can traverse any door and rediscover their existence,” says Buensuceso about his works.
