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Alexander Lamont celebrates 25 years of craft and design
Life, Published on 15/09/2025
» Alexander Lamont marked 25 years of craftsmanship with the unveiling of the brand's XXV Collection at a soirée held in Bangkok's Warehouse 30. The event brought together more than 100 international guests, from design leaders and curators to long-standing clients, for an exclusive first look at Lamont's latest work.
Follow your nose at art show
Life, Published on 20/07/2022
» Alexander Lamont Gallery is holding "Scent And The Power Of The Senses", a workshop that celebrates the olfactory arts, on Sunday at 2pm.
Watch artisans in action
Life, Published on 22/03/2022
» Alexander Lamont, a leading contemporary design brand based in Bangkok, will celebrate the beauty and sophistication of the decorative arts with an open door event, "Craftsmanship Re-Imagined", at its newly-open gallery at Warehouse 30 on Charoen Krung 30, from tomorrow to Sunday.
Out of the shadow of the Cold War
Life, Kong Rithdee and Putthapong Cheamrattonyu, Published on 24/09/2020
» The Cold War saw the birth of the persuasive power of cinema. In the early 1950s, the United States decided that psychological warfare was needed to thwart communist threats in Southeast Asia and so it set up a propaganda unit to produce movies, documentary films, cartoons and pamphlets to provoke a red scare among the people. The United States Information Services (Usis) was also active in Thailand during this decade of sinister geopolitics. Its main responsibility was to produce a number of narrative and documentary films which would be screened around the country to promote American-style democracy and caution people against the deadly dominance of communism.
Motown memories
Life, John Clewley, Published on 22/10/2019
» Songwriters pen the hits but the singers or bands are the big stars, and sometimes the producers are the ones who get the credit. I grew up with the Great American Songbook or "American Standards" at home, played on the piano by my father while we sang the lyrics. These were the songs that featured in Broadway theatre and in Hollywood musicals. What are now known as standards were crafted by George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Johnny Mercer and Richard Rogers.
Beauty runs deep
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 27/09/2019
» 'The key thing about anything here is that if you kept it for 100 years from now, it will be twice as beautiful," Alexander Lamont says of his decorative objects, before adding with a laugh, "I know it's not exactly a great way to sell stuff, but it's true. There is nothing that's made from the world today that could say the same."