{"id":12892,"date":"2017-02-12T15:58:51","date_gmt":"2017-02-12T07:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/?p=12892"},"modified":"2017-02-10T16:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T08:00:35","slug":"kenneth-cobonpue-to-bring-his-creations-all-over-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/2017\/02\/12\/kenneth-cobonpue-to-bring-his-creations-all-over-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenneth Cobonpue to bring his creations all over the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After serving as the creative director for the APEC Summit 2015 welcome dinner, famed furniture designer Kenneth Cobonpue is now ready to bring his designs all over the world.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12893\" src=\"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/Kenneth-Cobonpue-01_a_opt-1024x736.jpeg\" alt=\"Kenneth-Cobonpue-01_a_opt\" width=\"544\" height=\"437\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Image grabbed from <a href=\"http:\/\/nuvomagazine.com\/magazine\/summer-2014\/kenneth-cobonpue\">Nuvo Magazine<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Cebu-born designer, who was known for designing the \u201cYoda chairs\u201d leaders like Barack Obama, Xi Jinping used during their visit her, already has stores in Makati, Cebu, and New York City, and he plans to expand his reach by opening showrooms in Germany, Portugal, and Hong Kong by next year. \u00a0This is through Endeavour who supports high-impact entrepreneur and \u00a0helps them bring their products and business in emerging countries.<\/p>\n<p>This partnership, according to Cobonpue, helped them have a better look and grasp to what they can do and what their customers want. \u201cWe\u2019re looking at the company and trying to see what\u2019s our purpose, why are we here basically, and what can we offer to the world,\u201d Cobonpue stated.<\/p>\n<p>Cobonpue, in an article in Rappler, also said that through the country\u2019s multilingual culture, it is possible for the country to catch up with the never ending competition and innovations in the creative industry.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rappler.com\/business\/160556-endeavor-kenneth-cobonpue-steve-benitez-entrepreneurship\">Rappler<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/insideretail.asia\/2017\/02\/08\/furniture-brand-cobonpue-eyes-global-retail-expansion\/\">Inside Retail Asia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After serving as the creative director for the APEC Summit 2015 welcome dinner, famed furniture designer Kenneth Cobonpue is now ready to bring his designs all over the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[983,2413,1451,2412,119],"class_list":["post-12892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-current-events","tag-983","tag-furniture","tag-international","tag-kenneth-cobonpue","tag-philippines"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2017\/02\/Kenneth-Cobonpue-01_a_opt-e1486713557592.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12895,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12892\/revisions\/12895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/primer.com.ph\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}