Stepping through the “Bahay na Bato,” owned by Baguio-based doctors, Edison and Purita Chan-Noble, would be no different from walking on the pebble beach.

My earliest fascination with and exposure to the ilustrado lifestyle and bahay-na-bato architecture and interior design were from summers spent in the ancestral Santos Joven-Panlilio house of my ...

These old houses are what we call bahay na bato. Their foundation is made from Spanish-style solid stone bricks where the wooden upper-story stands. And these particular houses in Juban were ...