Jim Thompson. The House on the Klong. William Warren & Jean Michel Beurdeley

Archipelago Press, Singapore, 1999. Condición: Very Good. The polished wood panels of a group of Thai style teak houses, facing the slow-moving waters of the Klong Maha Nag, shine brilliantly in the high-noon sun. Here was the home of Jim Thompson, the legendary American businessman who developed a thriving silk business in the years before he went missing in the jungles of the Cameron Highlands in Malaysia a man whose flair for the tasteful and graceful led him to build a house in which objects of great value and beauty can still be seen displayed in appropriate surroundings. This book reviews the early years when Thompson was building his business and looking for a location for his new house. The reader is then introduced to the house and garden, and finally the art objects in the Jim Thompson collection are described in more detail. Nº de ref. del artículo: warren1999C