Design Anthology

Frontier Islands

Barely 20 years ago, the Mergui Archipelago was hidden from the world, its 800 or so tropical islands off the coast of southern Myanmar uninhabited by humans, except for small populations of Moken, also known as ‘sea gypsies’, taking shelter during the monsoon months before returning to

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