Cabinet of Curiosities
What do you do when you’ve spent a lifetime collecting beautiful objets and tchotchkes and, as is often the case, you find yourself running out of storage space? Increasingly, the solution appears to be to open your own hotel, as Eugene Yeh has done.
At first blush, the Cabochon Hotel, a in Bangkok’s buzzy Sukhumvit quarter, looks as if it’s straight out of the Sarkies Brothers playbook — a scaled-down version of their legendary Raffles hotel with broad white terraces, deep-set eaves, slender French doors, mosaic floors and a battalion of window panels rescued from an early-19th-century mansion in Myanmar. What a surprise, then, to learn that the 13-room property was only built in 2012.
