Walls have ears, they say. If only they had mouths as well, they could tell us some remarkable stories. Especially if it’s the walls of Asia’s historic hotels we’re taking about. After all, it’s within their walls that the…
Luxury Culture & Upcoming events in Asia
Luxury Culture & Upcoming events in Asia – NAA Luxury lifestyle magazine
– By Maciek Klimowicz – Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, New Delhi – Asian cities are the epitome of unrestrained growth and chaos. Myanmar’s biggest city was left behind in this race, and grew at its own pace into something special.…
– By Maciek Klimowicz – “Hi, I’m Stephen Quick and I’m an artist (whatever that means)”. This is how Stephen Quick, a UK born and based painter introduces himself on his website. And while we decided not to tackle…
Cracks in the concrete: The art of Kraiphet “Petch“ Pitakpreechakij – By Maciek Klimowicz – Yes, there is a fair number of both well established and new art galleries in the city of Bangkok. Yet when it comes to art,…
Here are some numbers – over 10 million THB raised for charity by almost 100 intricately painted elephant figures, each measuring 1.5 meters, during the capital’s largest ever outdoor art exhibition visited by approximately 1 million people over the…
“Cute!” might be your first reaction to meeting Mardi – a baby faced cartoon character clad in a furry rabbit outfit. But, cute as it is, this image decorating walls across Bangkok and beyond, carries a deeper meaning. What…
330 million – that’s the number of Gods according to the sacred books of Hinduism. To see the place where they are born, visit Kolkata.…
At first you only see splashes of colour, random brush strokes, impenetrable chaos. But take a moment, give it a second look and shapes begin to emerge. There are trees here, a whole jungle in fact; there are birds…
We are naturally drawn to human faces; our brains are programmed to spot their shapes among other patterns – we recognize a smile in two dots and a line, notice a face in Martian mountain formations and in the…
Justine Picardie, Editor-in-Chief of Harper’s Bazaar and Town & Country, UK and the author of critically acclaimed ‘Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life’, a biography of one of the most influential personalities in fashion, will grace the launch…
Coffee and cream go together well. So does coffee and mornings, coffee and cake or, for some, coffee and cigarettes. How about coffee and elephants? Yes, you’ve read right. There is a connection between the jungle giant and your…
Not a single drop of blood appears on the skin. Yet the man’s facial expression shows how painful each jab of the long spike is. It leaves its mark deep and forever. Once the tattoo master is done murmuring…
