Word: teak
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...time for us to talk to China, Thailand, Russia, India, countries that are physically, geographically, as well as economically close to Burma. Our sanctions don't mean that much because of other countries who take the benefit of Burma's natural resources. I'm very concerned about the teak forests, I'm worried about the Burmese people's patrimony being sold...
...became a way for the strictly vegetarian Marwaris to show off a little. The ceiling of one such haveli, for example, shows the flute-playing Hindu god Krishna frolicking beside a billowing steam engine. A bit kitsch? Maybe, but even if the images can be trite, the hand-carved teak doors and almost accidental details of the havelis rarely disappoint. Before paints were mass produced, for example, Marwaris fermented their dyes from cow urine and plastered them onto walls while the mud was still wet. This deep mustard brown color, leached under the cauldron of the desert sun, is stunning...
...design-and-lifestyle emporium, tel: (66) 5321 5166, to Nimmanhaemin. "I suppose I was ready for a new environment," she says. Fans of her old store can still find plenty of its distinctive, boldly colored Thai and Vietnamese lacquerware. Other goodies include two-toned lambskin messenger bags and teak trays inlaid with mother-of-pearl...
...Love teak furniture but loathe the fact that precious hardwood trees have to be cut down for it? Then consider a piece by Osisu, osisu.com. This small Thai company takes reclaimed teak (as well as discarded plywood, bottle caps and juice cartons) and fashions it into sleek furnishings that sell from its Bangkok head office and outlets in Paris and Los Angeles...
...very edgy." He is currently preoccupied with figuring out how to turn other kinds of leftovers-such as fiberglass resin that's sprayed on plastic bathtubs-into furniture. "I keep believing that if I do this, this world would be nicer," he says. There might be a few more teak trees left standing...