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High hopes
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 26/01/2018
» If Jim Thompson were alive today, Gerald Mazzalovo -- the Thai silk company's chief executive officer -- would want to ask him questions about his multifarious life. Not only did the late designer and founder of the Jim Thompson brand live through a tumultuous political era -- alternately as architect, spy, collector of antiques -- but he maintained relationships with local revolutionaries, European and American socialites and A-list celebrities, from Ho Chi Minh to Truman Capote.
Monarchical chronicles
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 18/10/2017
» In a 1970 address to librarians nationwide, the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej compared books to knowledge banks, "a collection of everything mankind has built, done and invented since ancient times". His remark thus highlighted the importance of these everyday objects in the human experience.