{"id":11196,"date":"2022-03-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koktailmagazine.com\/?p=11196"},"modified":"2022-03-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T00:00:00","slug":"koktail-conversation-episode-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koktailmagazine.com\/th\/2022\/03\/09\/koktail-conversation-episode-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Koktail Conversations: Episode 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Nigel Oakins banters with Bill Bensley in the celebrated architect and designer&#8217;s own backyard<\/h3>\n<p>No one represents the architectural and design world better than Bill Bensley in Thailand. In this 30 minute discussion, Bill talks about his early start designing gardens and his later transition to design and fully integrated architectural projects, plus his passion for trains and what that will soon lead to. Bill is creativity personified, and about the only thing he and Nigel Oakins, co-host of Koktail Conversations, had in common on that front is that they were wearing similar stripy socks for the recording.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Listen on Spotify:<\/h1>\n<p> <iframe src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/5rotr1sHyrJJv2GA4PtCHF?theme=0\" width=\"100%\" height=\"232\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch on YouTube: <\/h1>\n<p> <iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X4DP5hp1Bqk\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigel Oakins banters with Bill Bensley in the celebrated architect and designer&#8217;s own backyard No one represents the architectural and design world better than Bill Bensley in Thailand. 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