The gentle pixelations of this tower – the tallest in Thailand – are home to the 155-room Edition Hotel, Bangkok, and the upcoming Ritz-Carlton Residences, which have been designed in collaboration with Chanintr. It is the latest in a number of ambitious and exceptionally executed projects by Pace Development.

The subtle surprise that is 10 Bond Street, the new terracotta-clad residential development by New York-based Annabelle Selldorf – the German architect behind the elegant Neue Galerie and the galleries of David Zwirner – that sits comfortably on the corner of Bond and Lafayette in the city’s East Village.

We speak to 13 friends and family of Chanintr, from designers Suzanne Kasler and Thomas Pheasant to the creative directors of David Collins Studio and Waterworks, about the places that inspire them most, including Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art and the desert town of Dunhuang, China.

Part of Thomas Keller’s empire, we were told that Ad Hoc is The French Laundry for the young.