LIVING SPACE AT SIRITARAR

At the water's edge, the living room, dining area and guest pantry share a single building beside the pool. The pantry has an induction hob, refrigerator and island counter, allowing guests to cook without leaving the room where everyone gathers. The Thai kitchen, where the chef works, sits behind it. Further inland are two smaller buildings: a study and a gym.

Two bronze drums were unearthed at Taling Ngam in 1977, further down this same coast — Dong Son work from more than two thousand years ago, part of a tradition that spread from northern Vietnam across Southeast Asia by river and sea. Their motifs were studied and cut into wood for Siritarar: birds, a frog, and a long boat with figures in feathered headdresses. Beside them hang carvings drawn from the island's own life — the water buffalo and traditional basketry. They are references, not replicas.

Some floors are reclaimed timber, salvaged from the same demolished buildings that gave Siritarar its teak doors. The walls are finished in lime plaster rather than paint, an uneven surface that sits easily beside old wood and hand-fired brick. Everything else is kept restrained, leaving timber, sea and sky as the strongest colours

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