Eric Bunnag Booth

Assistant Manager Director, Jim Thompson Silk Company

Industry : Business

Surrounded by art at a young age, Eric Bunnag Booth keeps both
the legacy of Jim Thompson and his family’s personal art collection
alive and thriving. Born to Patsri Bunnag and Bill Booth, and raised
in France by stepfather Jean Michel Beurdeley, Eric is also co-
founder of the MAIIAM and Maielie Contemporary Art Museums.

Eric has worked to regenerate the Jim Thompson brand, making
it modern and relevant. In keeping with his family’s history in art
collecting, Eric outfitted the Jim Thompson House with an art
gallery and continues to preserve local art and culture at the Jim
Thompson Farm. He is also most recently overseeing an expansion
of Bangkok’s Jim Thompson Art Center. With his stepfather Jean
Michel Beurdeley in 2016, Eric opened MAIIAM in Chiang Mai
to showcase his family’s art collection as well as host exhibits to
showcase art from handicrafts to contemporary works. Eric was
awarded the Knight grade of the Order of Arts and Letters from the
Ministry of Culture of France in 2019.