The Jim Thompson house
The Jim Thompson house is the house of James H.Thompson,
a successful american contractor who was the founder of the celebrated Jim
Thompson Thai Silk Company. Thompson's achievements throughout his twenty five
year Live in the Kingdom of Thailand have won him a lot of fame because the
"Legendary american of Thailand".
For his contribution to expansion of the Thai Silk
business, Jim Thompson was awarded the Order of the White Elephant, a
decoration given to foreigners because they performing extraordinary
service to Thailand.Thompson's success
story in Kingdom of Thailand has become one among the foremost well- known
postwar legends in Asia.
In 1967, Jim Thompson went on vacation with his friends to the Highlands in Malaysia.
There There he set out for a move into the surrounding forest but never came.
hence began the Jim Thompson legend.
Since his disappearance in 1967, little has modified in
the home that was the 'talk of the town' and the 'city's most well-known social
center'. Even today, the charming Thai vogue house continues to be a key stop
for guests to Bangkok.
The house consists of a complex of six old-fashioned
Thai-style homes, teak structures that were purchased from many owners and
brought to the current location from different components of Thailand.
Construction of the Thai house was finished in 1959.
the jungle landscape
At the end of a non-descript lane, a background of dense
foliage is visible in the distance. coming near, the distinctive options of a
Thai vogue house shortly seem fully view.
Jim Thompson's Thai house stands on one 'rai' of land,
(just about 0.5 an acre) and is covered by superbly in the gardens. Thompson
found the haphazard look of nature's lush tropical jungles appealing. This
jungle landscape within the middle of town provides the house its distinctive
attractiveness.
the nostalgic attractiveness of the
situation
The charming side of waterways or life along the klong ,
fascinated him. wooden homes, some in the ancient Thai vogue, in the nice shade
of trees lining the stream banks, their branches arching over across the klong.
The daily traffic - boats plying up and down the waterway selling their wares.
Thompson had had his eye on this piece of land by Klong
Maha Nag and simply across from the weaving village of Ban Krua that he visited
each morning. it was a piece of land that had once been a part of the large
compound of a summer palace.
although the land is true in the heart of town (a block
faraway from the National Stadium), it maintains a flavor of its country past.
With town noises silence by the trees and by the klong, the pace looks visibly
slower. the situation has its attractiveness .
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