Thursday, August 07, 2008

Thailand - the Jim Thompson House.

Day 2 [1 and a half? Anyways, Friday afternoon.]

The Jim Thompson House.

The house was pretty cool, design wise, but the backstory is the hook. Former OSS officer who up and disappears after making a fortune in the Thai silk trade. That's a good story right there.

Jim Thompson (designer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
"James Harrison Wilson 'Jim' Thompson was an American businessman who helped revitalize Thailand's silk and textile industry in the 1950s and 1960s. A former U.S. military intelligence officer who once worked for the Office of Strategic Services, Thompson mysteriously disappeared while going for a walk on Easter Sunday, March 26, 1967 in the Cameron Highlands of Malaysia. Many hypotheses have been put forward to explain Jim's disappearance, and there were some reported sightings of him after his disappearance, but what happened to him still remains one of the greater unsolved mysteries of Southeast Asia."

Silk design block. Not sure exactly how this worked, but that's what they called it.

Sandy owns the room.



I'll give props to the garden though.

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