Unlike many pretentious and forced ?lifestyle? store concepts that attempt to combine products and services that do not feel natural together and/or have no real connection to each other, Patom Organic Living works.
It is located by a park in the Thonglor?s residential neighbourhood in the northern Wattana district of Bangkok, Thailand. Thonglor (also referred to as Thong Lor or Thong Lo) is a trendy district that has been attracting the creative crowd both as residents and as patrons of the restaurants, night clubs and interesting retail of the area.
Patom is essentially a small wood-frame glass box that is both a retail store and a 25-seat café. It sells certified organic body care products and organic foods provided by a network of farmers to which the owners have deep-rooted  connections. Patom also aims to raise ecological awareness and promote sustainable living through a series of workshops and farmers markets held in the garden by the shop.

Patom was designed by Bangkok-based Nita Yuvaboon and Prow Puttorngul of Nitaprow that the two founded in 2013. Both are graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design (Bachelor of Architecture and a Bachelor of Fine Arts) and Columbia University (Master of Science in Advanced Urban Design.).
To practice what they preach, Patom?s owners and designers selected reclaimed wood form the owner?s old houseboat, fallen tree trunks from the family farm and refurbished furniture from the owners? collection. 
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