Recent online obituaries hail Oscar M. Lopez (1930-2023) as a titan of business in the Philippines, but the little-known side of...

Recent online obituaries hail Oscar M. Lopez (1930-2023) as a titan of business in the Philippines, but the little-known side of him I knew was as a bibliophile, whose home library was both a source of inspiration and envy for me.
Both of us loved the Lopez Museum and Library that he helped build by studying and acquiring rare Filipiniana abroad for his father Eugenio Lopez, Sr. When the Lopez Museum was still in the Benpres building he would pop in unannounced to insure that contemporary a...