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For the love of design
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 26/03/2021
» When House of Fritz Hansen in Soi Somkid first came to life in 2017, the white house from the 1950s it inhabited was polished into a showroom to display how luxury Danish furniture pieces could fit into a Thai home. Sleek and clean minimalism usually comes to mind at the mention of this Scandinavian name -- but the global rebrand that has been set into motion since last year is injecting quite a popping touch of colours, fun and modernity to its overall aesthetics.
Museum of laughter
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 22/07/2016
» The occasion calls for a teary eye, but Thailand Creative and Design Center (TCDC) is holding its very last exhibition at its current home in The Emporium with a factory loaded with laughter.
7-Eleven takes literature to the next level
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 06/07/2015
» Feel like SEA Write is a little too out of your league? Thanks to the countless other badges of honour that acknowledge good writing available in our country, the prestigious SEA Write Award is not the only ticket to literary stardom. 7 Book Awards, an initiative that started between CP All Public Company Limited and the Ministry of Education, has been honouring outstanding literature since 2004. This year's awards ceremony will be taking place later this month.
Sail away with the family
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 12/06/2015
» Even if awkward silences, nosey aunties and shameless pretentiousness is part of the package, it's still hard to not accept an invitation to an all-paid-for 10-day cruise to Greece. If anything, it's the much-awaited all-star cast of Dil Dhadakne Do (Let The Heart Beat) that makes you want to tag along, even if you want no part in their drama. Using an upper crust 30th wedding anniversary as the backdrop, director Zoya Akhtar serves up a condensed trip through every type of familial problem Indian families face in just under three hours.
TV Thrones tomes good company
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 09/03/2015
» With the premiere date for the fifth season of Game Of Thrones only a month away, now is a good time for fans to refresh their memories of what has happened so far.
For the fun and cheerful
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 07/07/2014
» Bun Books, the new, cutesy younger sister of Banlue Publications, rolls out new illustration-orientated reads
All figured out
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 20/06/2014
» In with the new, but not necessarily out with the old. As the film and television production company Kantana enters its third generation, the founders’ myriad of grandchildren have begun to step into the spotlight to take over the different wings of the empire.
Fast-bike action from Bollywood
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 20/12/2013
» For the first time ever, a Bollywood movie opens with a blast in Thailand simultaneously on six screens across the country.
Radiating cuteness
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 09/10/2013
» French photographer and scholar on Japanese visual culture Claude Estebe returns to Bangkok for his third exhibition at Toot Yung Gallery, which recently moved to Ekamai Soi 2. The revamped space is clean and simple, but his close-ups of iconic Japanese robots and merchandising toys stand out against the neutral grey walls more than ever.
Drawing on culture
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 04/03/2013
» The 54-year-old is calm and collected, quite unlike the character he draws. French illustrator Jean-Philippe Delhomme stands amidst a bevy of Thai editorial faces - people with really nice houses and who are upper-class event hoppers - and easily blends in with the classy luxuriance of the Sansiri Lounge at Siam Paragon. He meticulously sharpens his colour pencils by hand before thoughtfully drawing his character The Unknown Hipster into each inside cover at his very first book signing in Thailand.