Quick info
Business hours: 10 AM to 8 PM, Sunday to Saturday
Majority of merchandise: antiques, (specializing in Thai art and culture)
Feature: monthly auction (every first Saturday) in the 4th floor auditorium
Event going on: Nude & Erotic Painting Exhibition, 23 April - 31 May 2012 @ The Art Zone, 2nd floor
Location: 23 Si Phaya Pier, Soi Trok Rongnamkaeng, Yota Road, Sampantawong
Fastest way to get there: take the Silom Line BTS skytrain to Saphan Taksin Station. There's a free shuttle boatto the River City Shopping Complex.
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Some fascination for antiques motivated this adventure. With very limited Thai I took a shot of the address and asked a sky train station guard to write it in Thai. This is the Saphan Taksin pier where I waited for the boat to RCSC -
Capacity of this boat must be between forty or fifty passengers but there were only three of us on this trip: a European couple and myself
Some of the sights during the boat ride are temple spires, facade of international hotels and high rise condominiums. Bougainvilleas did a pretty job on this building -
A boat carrying RCSC shoppers arrives at the Si Phaya pier
For some reason unknown to me the complex was virtually devoid of shoppers that day which was fine by me. Admiring these paintings was better in the quiet
The undisturbed shopping gave off a 'night in the museum' effect
Some of the art pieces on display: staring at these antiques could transport one to the whimsical orient -
This is RCSC entrance opposite the banks of Chao Phraya river. I like how it looks so modern on the outside but a different world on the inside.
