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50 years of PH design at the National Museum

First of two parts

'IF you see a form constantly being reinvented through 50 years, there is a thread to be drawn out. For example, there is an abiding interest in international style, but always with a twist: either a local material is recuperated in the new idiom, or reference is made to indigenous conventions,' said Marian Pastor-Roces, curator of '50 Years of Philippine Design,' a groundbreaking exhibition ongoing at the National Museum of Fine Arts.