From mystery to mainstay
Jim Thompson’s flagship store remains a can’t-miss shopping destination, some 55 years after its founder disappeared
published : 17 Mar 2022 at 04:00
In Jim Thompson: The Unsolved Mystery, William Warren describes the Thai Silk Company on Surawong Road as a modest little shop with an air-conditioned sales room on the ground floor, hot cramped offices and store rooms on the upper floors.
Nevertheless, in the early 1950s, the Thai Silk Company was a Bangkok landmark and shopping destination for many foreign tourists after they checked into their…
