'Kanlungan' outdoor lounge chair combines three different design motifs - two of which are endemic to the Philippines, for the product to fully embrace the meaning of the weave it used. The following design motifs are; Bagobo Textile: Binwuaya Weave, the 'nga' character in the Baybayin, and the 'Solihiya' weave.

According to the book 'Art and the Order of Nature', the crocodile, lizards, and other amphibious forms such as the snake, frog, and turtle, and even the spider, scorpion, and crab that are present in the indigenous textiles in the Philippines (including Bagobo) as icons and symbols used by the weavers in their patterns are said to be connected to their deities.

These animals are generally regarded as vehicles of spirits traversing this world and the world beyond, journeying across expansive lands, mountains, rivers and vast waters, and so putting these symbols into their weaves can mean a lot oof different things - mostly spiritual.

As a pattern, I used the Binuwaya weave - a pattern preferred by Salinta Monon - the last Bagobo weaver and a national living treasure of the Philippines. the buwaya is often regarded as a god or a spirit surveying the realm of the mortals, and so i wanted to incorporate that concept in to the lounge chair which we often use to 'meditate' or 'relax'.

The form for the frame of the lounge chair was inspired by the 'nga' charatcer of the Baybayin alphabet, - a Philippine Script used by pre-hispanic settlers of the Philippine islands. The character is believed to be a representation of a crocodile.