Sosyal

Finally, an update! And finally, my first term at Interior Design school has come to an end. I just came home from a last Color Theory make-up class at my professor’s house. Our professor, who also happens to be the Director of the school, and also a cousin of a very famous showbiz talkative TV host, gave us a short lecture, toured us around his house, and served us food for lunch of which I ate so much of.

My professor is so cute! His house is filled with nude paintings, books with pictures of hard-bodied hunks, and Queer as Folk DVDs. Awww. But what really made me go Wow were all the paintings by prominent artists which filled up almost all of the wall space in all of the rooms of the house! Dami talaga. I also loved his furniture pieces. Very interesting and very eclectic. He even had these two Philippe Starck Louis Ghost chairs which I’ve been seeing in magazines and are now my favorite!



While we were talking over lunch, it has once again been rubbed in my face that Interior Design can be such a sosyal profession. To be in business as an Interior Designer, you have to have connections. Not just any connections, but connections with the moneyed people who can afford to have their homes interiored. Some designers even learn golf or join rotary clubs just to be connected to potential clients. Is there a way to make Interior Design here in the Philippines more masa? Is that even possible?

Hmmm, I’d still have to think about that. I have 2 more years!