The Dutch design house joins Muebles Italiano’s roster, bringing a collection inspired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art with it.
Muebles Italiano, the country’s authority on European and contemporary luxury furniture, is bringing Eichholtz to Philippine shores. The Dutch house has spent three decades building a reputation as one of the most trusted names in luxury furniture, lighting, and home accessories, and it arrives in Manila with a catalog with over 4,000 designs, refreshed each year with as many as 600 new pieces.
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About Eichholtz
Theo Eichholtz founded the brand in the Netherlands in 1992, and what started as an import business for Asian accessories and furniture has grown into a design house with true international reach. The company built its name on what it calls a “total concept” approach, applying the same rigor to furniture, lighting, and accessories alike, and moving from antique and old world through baroque, art deco, and mid-century.
That range is exactly what caught Muebles Italiano’s attention. “When we discovered Eichholtz in Amsterdam last 2024, it wasn’t just an appreciation for their furniture. It was a recognition of a shared philosophy,” shares Kris Gonzales, the brand’s Vice President for Communications and Knowledge Management.
Introducing The MET x Eichholtz Collection To The Philippines
To mark the Philippine debut, Muebles Italiano introduces the MET x Eichholtz collection, which takes inspiration from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s (MET) 5,000-year archive of art and history. Nearly 160 pieces make up the collection, and together, they move through eras the way a museum wing might, tracing a path from antiquity to the present without ever feeling like a history lesson.
Among the standouts are a series of reinterpreted Roman and Greek busts, including a marble rendering of Hermes, messenger of the gods, sized to anchor a room the way a single sculpture might in a gallery. The Chair Louis takes its cues from Louis XVI’s Salon des Jeux at Saint-Cloud, its frame finished in antique gold and its seat upholstered in Sentier cream, a nod to 18th-century French design.
The Imperial Chandelier, meanwhile, pairs brushed brass with smoked glass, its tiered silhouette recalling the marble columns of the Temple of Artemis at Sardis. Beyond these pieces sit sculptures, cabinets, seating, mirrors, and tables, each one translating centuries of craft into items built for daily use.
Kar Gonzales, Muebles Italiano’s Vice President for Marketing, expounds on the collection’s intent: “Each piece in the MET Collection carries an intellectual foundation. It invites homeowners to live among references to art, architecture, and culture, not in a way that feels literal or themed, but in a way that feels curated and considered. The MET partnership immediately elevates the conversation around furniture.”
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Frequently Asked Questions
Eichholtz is a Dutch luxury design house known for its furniture, lighting, and home accessories. Founded in 1992, the brand offers more than 4,000 designs inspired by different periods in art and design history.
Muebles Italiano introduced Eichholtz to the Philippine market, making the Dutch luxury furniture brand available to local homeowners and interior design enthusiasts.
The MET x Eichholtz collection is a collaboration inspired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection, featuring nearly 160 furniture, lighting, and décor pieces influenced by thousands of years of art and history.
Eichholtz creates furniture, lighting, home accessories, sculptures, mirrors, cabinets, tables, seating, and decorative objects for contemporary interiors.
The collection is displayed at Muebles Italiano’s newly renovated flagship showroom in Paseo de Magallanes.
