Pasig
— — a city built where the river bends.
Not only on a wall.
“A city on the east bank of the river that named it, just east of Manila. Older than the Spanish friars who founded the parish here in 1573, it grew up around a bend where the Marikina meets the Pasig and the boats could turn for the lake. Today the high glass of Ortigas rises a few kilometres west of a parish church whose foundations are four centuries old. — from the studio
Pasig, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Pasig is a city of about 800,000 in the eastern part of Metro Manila, on the river of the same name a few kilometres downstream of Laguna de Bay. Spanish friars founded the parish of the Immaculate Conception here in 1573, but the settlement is older — a pre-colonial polity already controlled the river bend where the Marikina joins the Pasig. The city now covers roughly 31 square kilometres and includes the western half of Ortigas Center, one of the principal business districts of the metropolis.
The river is the reason the city is here. The Pasig runs about 25 kilometres from Laguna de Bay west to Manila Bay, and the bend at Pasig was the natural turning point for cargo bound either way. By the late twentieth century industrial discharge had rendered the river biologically dead through most of its course; rehabilitation under the Pasig River Coordinating Commission, launched in 1999, has slowly returned fish to certain stretches and reopened a public ferry that calls at Guadalupe and Sta. Ana.
The historic core sits around Plaza Rizal, where the Immaculate Conception Cathedral and the Bahay na Tisa, the oldest surviving house in the city, still stand. The cathedral's current building dates to 1730, with later restorations after damage in the Second World War. The Pasig River Ferry calls at Guadalupe and Sta. Ana on its run upriver. Ortigas Center, three kilometres west of the plaza, holds the largest concentration of high-rise office space in the metropolis after Makati and the BGC.