Book Credits

Andreas Augustin
presents
The Oriental, Bangkok
in the series
The Most Famous Hotels in the World
(co-author: Andrew Williamson)

Very special thanks go to Kurt Wachtveitl, general manager of the Oriental, who made this book possible.
Our deepest gratitude is extended to Penny Wachtveitl, Mark S Bradford, Melvin J J Robson, Norbert A Kostner, Dr Parichart J Suksongkroh, Jonas A Schuermann, Noppawan Phahulrat, Rabieb Boonkunch, Virochana Mochachandra, Supatana Atorn-Phtai, Jørgen Kamstrup, Susanne Worsfold, Phenkhae Chattanont, Anne Arunie, Chaturong Siewsutha and Carola E Augustin.

We treasure great memories of the late Mimi Berlingieri who shared her favourite anecdotes with us. We thank Chancham Bunnag for her valuable research and information. We are also especially grateful to Pornsri Luphaiboon who set new standards in the field of public relations and to Ankana Kalantananda who helped so much with all her golden memories.
We are very grateful to HSH Professor Prince Subhadradis Diskul for his kind advice concerning the history of the Kingdom and we also thank Gavin Young for his input.
Last but not least many thanks to Somsri (Susie) Hansirisawasdi, Director of Public Relations, who helped so much to update the current edition and all the others who have contributed so generously to this book and who are not mentioned by name.
Assistant of the first edition: Yasmin Nissen
Historic Research and Co-Author: Andrew Williamson
Research assistant: Herta Tschurlovits; Scripts: Julie Zhou;
Producer: Harrison Dolittle

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Photographs: Celebrities: Aniwat Aeulek and the hotel’s archives; Heimo Aga, 20th Century Fox, Fotografische Sammlung Museum Folkwang
Editor: Thomas Cane, Cherry Chappell and Carola Augustin

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