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Mark Mobius' Apartment
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“Translating Ancient Thai elements into modern lifestyle.”
Dr. Joseph Mark Mobius Apartment
Bangkok, Thailand
Designed and built by Anantapa Thongtawach
Dr.Joseph Mark Mobius is one of the leaders in a global investigation and emerging markets fund management. His lifestyle evolves around business travel and building recreation spaces for himself all over the world. White is his favorite color. The concept first started, with the intention to create a direct analogy with the client’s visual identity, in order to continue the designer’s idea of differentiate spaces based on the users, combines with the designer’s additional concept which is to adapt, simplify, and translate combination of oriental ancient elements into a city lifestyle.
This modern apartment in the middle of Bangkok is spiritually connected with the sublime aesthetic of Thai Buddhism. The fundamental belief of Thai religion has always been the root of how we simplify our life. Thai people from two hundred years ago spend most of their time outdoors as part of nature. There were trees penetrating through terraces in the middle of the house. It is important for them to draw in their natural surroundings by placing potted plants around the terrace. There was never a line that defines space between inside and outside. They lived as part of nature, and nature as part of them. The level of the floor changes as one moves from room to terrace, providing a wide variety of positions for sitting or lounging around the living areas. Furniture is sparse and includes a bed platform, dining table and loose cushions for sitting. Sleeping areas are set up so that the beds are aligned with the shorter end of the room. There was no cabinet. Nothing was built in. Thai people kept their belongings in small chests or vases that placed around the house, which is also a result of their sense of community and religious beliefs influenced by spiritually significant structures of ancient feng-shui. Therefore, all of this cultural styles has been given the new meaning and adjust on to every scents of this apartment.
Minimalism was presented in many ways. With the principle of Buddhism simplicity held tight, the one color used was white with accent of stainless steel polished grey. To emphasize more in the details, the designer played with the clean elegance of mixing different textures of only one color material such as clear glasses, milky acrylics, and solid white wood boards together. In conclusion, in order to mimic Thai style, all the furniture shown is loose. Cabinets were invisibly hidden into walls. Small loose furniture’s, chests, and acrylic vases were placed randomly but intentionally in the corners. Form does not follow only function but also emotion. The living room functionality was created using combination of small acrylic drawers with different transparencies, placed them together as to perform a longitudinal table shape that can be used as a working desk on one end and a dining table on the other. Mixing in with a square shape bucket for plants that looks like it interpenetrated through the floor into furniture from the room below. Significantly expanding the scale, the designer put full size mirrors on both end of the room to extend the vision of furniture’s line to infinity. As for the bedrooms, bed platforms was built elevated the floor level up to allow space for sinking ten inches over size cushion.
Everything in this apartment was designed with guiding tenet of simplicity, but not the shallow simplicity that comes from an uncluttered look and feel of surfaces, but the deep simplicity that comes from knowing the essence of every detail of every need of the owner.
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