A restless man born in the Philippines, Eduardo Oblés was in the United States doing his master's degree in Neurology, when he came to Mexico, a country with which he fell madly in love.
"The best thing I've done in my life is come to Mexico." He stays here and works for a time as a paramedic in Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl. Later, he decided to dedicate himself to what is truly his vocation, sculpture, and he moved to Tepoztlán.
There he began working with wood, since in the Philippines he had been an apprentice cabinetmaker. Fifteen years ago he switched to stone, and as he himself says: “At La Iguana de Oriente we design and manufacture sculptures, fountains, tables, columns, jewelry, lighting and vases in stones and breccia, jasper, quartz, corundum and jade. The tables, fountains and lighting projects are made expressly for the place.
All the wood we use is ecologically correct. We buy trees that are going to be felled for construction or safety reasons, or that have been damaged by lightning.
