It is of course in the bedrooms that the twin aims of comfortable amenity and local accent are most important. In the President the typical standard room has a floor area of 27.3 sq. metres 4.20 metres x 6.5 metres
and includes a tiled bathroom. The furnishings comprise twin beds; two bedside tables one with radio, lighting and message indicator control equipment built-in; two lounge chairs; a circular coffee table; dressing table and stool; luggage rack; two bedside lamps and one hanging lamp; a wall mirror with lamps at- tached and a built-in wardrobe closet with trays.
The room is completely carpeted in a machine woven carpet with rubber underlay and has full length draperies. Colour schemes vary with each room type, the standard rooms being predominantly blue and gold. The majority of the fabrics locally made in Thai designs by Design Thai Co. and Thai Silk Co.
are
Walls are part timber panelled and part painted in a beige range. The furniture is of naturally oiled teak- wood and the bedheads are of cane with a teakwood framing in a tradi- tional Thai temple shape. Table lamps are of a lotus-bud shape in glass with a slender brass stem.
All rooms are completely sealed and air-conditioned by a chilled water system carried above the suspended ceiling of the corridors which are panelled in rosewood and end in glass walls providing views over the city.
The public rooms retain the Thai accent but are more lavishly decorated in keeping with the chosen themes. An exception is the lobby which, being a transit area, is of an interna- tional character in restful hues.
Floor and walls are of beige ter- razzo with wall features of mango wood and white stone, and carpeting
Rochana speciality restaurant
is brown and orange, The teak and upholstered furniture is specially designed by Pacific House, as is the chandelier lighting which was made in Japan by Yamada Shomei.
Timber screens of an open dia- mond pattern separate the lobby from the lobby lounge area to give quiet areas with upholstered easy chairs and Tai Ping carpet away from the lobby traffic.
In keeping with the trend in most modern large hotels the President has no main dining room as such but has instead a range of speciality restaur- ants, snack bars and cocktail lounges. Largest of these is the Rochana on the first floor which seats 150. The name is taken from a Thai legend whose story is painted in a mural on one entire wall of the restaurant.
The Rochana is luxuriously ornate.
Bright red wall to wall carpeting by Tai Ping is of a pattern which matches up with the room's coffered ceiling. The ceiling too is red and is covered in special Keliehor patterned wallpaper.
Hand-made chandeliers, rosewood panelling, broken Thai-glass mosaics on the columns, teak furniture and heavyweight Thai cotton floorlength curtains complete the room's elegance. The curtains part to reveal a view of the pool and Lotus terrace an in- formal dining area with umbrella covered teakwood dining tables and rattan and metal lounge chairs.
In contrast to the Rochana the Cat's Eye lounge on the ground floor has a dramatic night club atmosphere achieved by subdued lighting from re- cessed wall washer lights and hanging Thai glass lanterns, intimate booth
لسلة
Free TRUTE
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LOTUS POOL
ROCHANA ROOM
2 +
Lobby floor plan
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OFFICE
PEORESAN
LUOSADE
SUNTER
OBB,
MERCE BAGGE
MAIN ENTRANCE
Far East BUILDER, September 1968.
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