Sathon Mansion
The Sathon Mansion or Luang Chitchamnongwanit Mansion is a complex of historic buildings in Bangkok, Thailand. It was built in 1888, during the reign of King Chulalongkorn, for Luang Chitchamnongwanit, son-in-law of Luang Sathonrachayut, the wealthy Chinese businessman and government official who owned and developed the land around Khlong Sathon. In 1910, Luang Chitchamnongwanit went bankrupt, and ownership of the mansion fell to the Privy Purse King Vajiravudh bestowed the mansion to Chao Phraya Ram Rakhop, and later, in the 1920s, it became the site of the Hotel Royal. In 1948, the property was leased to the USSR, and it served as the site of the Soviet—and later Russian—embassy until the year 1999.
The mansion underwent extensive renovations in the 2000s, as part of the development of the Sathorn Square office tower and the W Bangkok hotel, which now flank the mansion on each side. It reopened in July 2015 as a restaurant and entertainment venue for the W Bangkok, known as "The House on Sathorn". The mansion also served as a main location for the 2016 film A Gift''.
