When Soleil left the brightly blazing, ever busy Dubai, it was to rest her weary mind and perhaps even reconnect with what initially drew her in to interior design without the boxes and restraints of the cooperate world.
Like a caged bird finally set free, Soleil soared to places near and far, and when the winds finally blew her to Romblon, the marble paradise, she was certain her sail had changed direction. “I fell in love with the authentic Filipino simplicity. Just the old style huts with the bare minimal,” she says.
With near evangelical clarity, Soleil reminisces on how she had travelled so much that she was beginning to feel like ‘an idle bum.’ Coming to Romblon felt like coming home and she knew the island had seduced her when she made a silent promise to the marble chairs that where too heavy to carry back to Manila: “If ever I come back, I will buy these marble chairs.” Three years later and marking a turning point in her life, Soleil came back to the island to stay, needless to state, the chairs had patiently awaited her return.