This evening I said goodbye to a few arts contacts over dinner at The Face. Not the magazine, but an incongruously named Thai restaurant near Thonglor, one of my favourites. So, goodbye Paravi (aka Albert), curator extraordinaire and who annoyingly speaks four languages fluently (Thai, French, English and Chinese). Goodbye Pratarn, Director of Bangkok Design Festival. Goodbye Ruttikorn, toy-designer and winner of our International Young Design Entrepreneur Award ("The British Council has changed my life" is as good a quote as any). Goodbye Chatvichai, Acting Director of Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, veteran arts manager constantly battling the system. And goodbye Mongkon, zen-like Editor of art4d, Thailand's best design & architecture magazine, and who only revealed this evening that he's a big footie fan. (The other two, Pred & Mallika are colleagues). It's been a pleasure.
Friday, June 18, 2010
Farewell to friends
This evening I said goodbye to a few arts contacts over dinner at The Face. Not the magazine, but an incongruously named Thai restaurant near Thonglor, one of my favourites. So, goodbye Paravi (aka Albert), curator extraordinaire and who annoyingly speaks four languages fluently (Thai, French, English and Chinese). Goodbye Pratarn, Director of Bangkok Design Festival. Goodbye Ruttikorn, toy-designer and winner of our International Young Design Entrepreneur Award ("The British Council has changed my life" is as good a quote as any). Goodbye Chatvichai, Acting Director of Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, veteran arts manager constantly battling the system. And goodbye Mongkon, zen-like Editor of art4d, Thailand's best design & architecture magazine, and who only revealed this evening that he's a big footie fan. (The other two, Pred & Mallika are colleagues). It's been a pleasure.
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