We visited the Bangkok Sculpture Center located in the outskirts of Bangkok. It's quite a distance away and not a very popular place even among the locals and the cab driver had difficulty finding it. The journey was more than half hour and the distance more than 20km from the city centre. Still, the place is worth visiting at least once, just to appreciate its architecture and collection, which we weren't allowed to photograph and had to be accompanied to view as the doors were all controlled and one needed a security pass to get in and out.
The outdoor sculpture garden was nice and we hung around a bit to photograph it while the guide who brought us around waited patiently by the side.
The serene sculpture garden.
Behind the beige wall at the far end of the pix is where the main sculpture collection is housed and the layout of the exhibition area is rather unique. The owner of this place also manages an event company dealing with lights and sound systems and while the sculpture pieces are on a mezzanine level, it overlooks the warehouse area where the lights and sound systems are stored. Workers were busy moving stuff around beneath us. We could see them as it's designed as an open concept. Rather strange and unique way of housing a sculpture collection!
Some pieces located on the ground floor garden.
Others located outside the glass lift core.
Meg being playful.
We headed to another place which is in the same vacinity but not exactly nearby...a huge warehouse which stores old retro furniture and stuff. This place, called 'Papaya' is one mindblowing sight. I've never seen so much old and funky stuff in one place before. Singapore's version of something like this, 'Lorgan's' is nowhere close to this! It was quite a challenge finding the place, and our taxi driver was getting quite annoyed having to go round and round searching for this blasted fruit place. We finally found it and boy was it worth finding!
Everything retro you've ever seen or wanted can be found here. Most of the stuff doesn't work though, like clocks and telephones, and are only good to be used as props.
The owner of this place must've spent years scouring the world for all this stuff...
Really cool TVs! We wanted to buy that small circular clock on the top left of the pix but it's not working and was going for 6000B, about S$265!
We also wanted to get a 'candlestick' phone. It's solid and heavy, but isn't working anymore. It cost too much, the owner wanted 8000B for it, about S$350. We could've bargained but decided against it. Would've gotten it if it were around S$200 but I don't think he'd slash the price that much. Also, there's the problem of bringing it back with its weight and all.
Part of the furniture...
You've got to be there to really appreciate the amount of stuff that's on display. It's really a blast from the past! If only the stuff was more affordable...
After all that eye exercise, we decided to work on our mouths...and headed to the beautiful Vanilla Garden in Ekamai. We'd read about it in this book (which also featured Papaya). Vanilla Garden consists of 3 entities - Sauce, a modern bookshop carrying mainly cookbooks; Royal Vanilla which serves Chinese food and Dim Sum; and Vanilla Cafe, a cool cafe that serves delicious desserts and drinks. The entire place is modelled after a Japanese Garden and its concept is clean, green and zen-like.
Seating area is available along the window walls of Sauce, with a fountain as a centrepiece of the garden.
The second level of Sauce.
Cherry Lemonade and White Malt Cake.
A lovely way to end the day...
We visited the Bangkok Sculpture Center located in the outskirts of Bangkok. It's quite a distance away and not a very popular place even among the locals and the cab driver had difficulty finding it. The journey was more than half hour and the distance more than 20km from the city centre. Still, the place is worth visiting at least once, just to appreciate its architecture and collection, which we weren't allowed to photograph and had to be accompanied to view as the doors were all controlled and one needed a security pass to get in and out.
The outdoor sculpture garden was nice and we hung around a bit to photograph it while the guide who brought us around waited patiently by the side.
The serene sculpture garden.
Behind the beige wall at the far end of the pix is where the main sculpture collection is housed and the layout of the exhibition area is rather unique. The owner of this place also manages an event company dealing with lights and sound systems and while the sculpture pieces are on a mezzanine level, it overlooks the warehouse area where the lights and sound systems are stored. Workers were busy moving stuff around beneath us. We could see them as it's designed as an open concept. Rather strange and unique way of housing a sculpture collection!
Some pieces located on the ground floor garden.
Others located outside the glass lift core.
Meg being playful.
We headed to another place which is in the same vacinity but not exactly nearby...a huge warehouse which stores old retro furniture and stuff. This place, called 'Papaya' is one mindblowing sight. I've never seen so much old and funky stuff in one place before. Singapore's version of something like this, 'Lorgan's' is nowhere close to this! It was quite a challenge finding the place, and our taxi driver was getting quite annoyed having to go round and round searching for this blasted fruit place. We finally found it and boy was it worth finding!
Everything retro you've ever seen or wanted can be found here. Most of the stuff doesn't work though, like clocks and telephones, and are only good to be used as props. 
The owner of this place must've spent years scouring the world for all this stuff...
Really cool TVs! We wanted to buy that small circular clock on the top left of the pix but it's not working and was going for 6000B, about S$265!
We also wanted to get a 'candlestick' phone. It's solid and heavy, but isn't working anymore. It cost too much, the owner wanted 8000B for it, about S$350. We could've bargained but decided against it. Would've gotten it if it were around S$200 but I don't think he'd slash the price that much. Also, there's the problem of bringing it back with its weight and all.
Part of the furniture...
You've got to be there to really appreciate the amount of stuff that's on display. It's really a blast from the past! If only the stuff was more affordable...
After all that eye exercise, we decided to work on our mouths...and headed to the beautiful Vanilla Garden in Ekamai. We'd read about it in this book (which also featured Papaya). Vanilla Garden consists of 3 entities - Sauce, a modern bookshop carrying mainly cookbooks; Royal Vanilla which serves Chinese food and Dim Sum; and Vanilla Cafe, a cool cafe that serves delicious desserts and drinks. The entire place is modelled after a Japanese Garden and its concept is clean, green and zen-like.
Seating area is available along the window walls of Sauce, with a fountain as a centrepiece of the garden.
The second level of Sauce.
Cherry Lemonade and White Malt Cake.
A lovely way to end the day...
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