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It’s 6am. I am waist-deep in a swamp in the Congolese jungle. Rays of light flash through the branches, a hippo barks and mangabey monkeys chatter in the trees
If you feel a distinct joie de vivre walking into a Bill Bensley-designed establishment, that’s exactly what its maker intended. Throughout the more than 30 years since he started his eponymous design studio Bensley in a Bangkok garage, work has been “all about play” for the architect, landscaper and interior designer who trained at the Harvard Graduate School of Design..