‘Bangkok Domestic Tastes: a Tailored Speculation’ is a ‘tapestry’ that reflects on the promotion and marketing strategies of the real estate market in Bangkok through playful narrative techniques. 

Developed in a workshop with second-year students, it represents nine existing neighborhoods, aiming to reflect on the ‘lifestyle’ that each condo constructs, promotes, and sells. It highlights a disconnect between the standardized physical products, the built apartments, and their immaterial counterparts–the variegated lifestyles described in explicit and catchy advertising.

The graphic realization is inspired by the representation techniques, color palettes, and compositions of traditional Thai mural paintings, including hybridizations of typical urban animals, recalling the iconography of folkloric mythological creatures.

The artwork has been modeled in 3D, transposed into an elevation oblique drawing, colored and blended in vector graphic software, and later printed on cotton canvas with the addition of CNC embroidered elements. This allows for the inclusion of materials and colors that are important in a Thai context, like gold and other textiles.

‘Bangkok Domestic Tastes: a Tailored Speculation’ presents a critical yet playful journey through the city, while reflecting on how some of its important components evolve and shape its life patterns.
The tapestry has been exhibited in the exhibition 999 Questions on Contemporary Living, at La Triennale di Milano, it has won the drawing competition ‘The Island: Between Utopia and Metaphor for Reality’ by Library and Desplans gallery, and it has been published in MONU 29 ‘Narrative Urbanism.’