{"title":"Sumphat","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"soliflore-vase-and-candle-holder","title":"Soliflore: Vase and Candle Holder","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Bungamas is a Thai tradition stretching back centuries: a tree fashioned from gold and silver, presented as royal tribute and devotional offering. To give one was to make visible something the culture already understood - that an object shaped into a tree, offered with intention, carries meaning the living thing it resembles cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRush Pleansuk first encountered this tradition at Phra Sri Mahathat Temple Museum. He returned with a question rather than an answer, and the Soliflore is what came of it. A brass tree, 143 centimetres tall, its branches rising in the irregular rhythm of something that grew rather than was designed. Each branch holds a cup: one for a candle, one for a single stem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe candle will melt. The flower will fade. The brass will remain, acquiring the particular colour that only time and handling produce. That progression - offering, impermanence, evidence - is the work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eCast and embossed by hand in brass. Exclusive to Australia at The Leopard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sumphat","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49023107039459,"sku":null,"price":4500.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/5230\/2051\/files\/p-sumphat-vase-soliflore1.jpg?v=1779946754"},{"product_id":"khing-side-table","title":"Khing side table pair","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIn the galleries of Bangkok National Museum, the doors carry a particular kind of image: trees rendered in gold lacquer against dark grounds, their branches reaching across idealized sacred landscapes. The technique is called Lai Rod Nam. The tree is often the Khoi - Streblus asper, a resilient native species that Thai temple-builders have cultivated for centuries, as much for what it represents as for what it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRush Pleansuk looked at those doors and asked what the image would become if you gave it volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Khing side table is his answer: cast brass branches forming the silhouette of a solitary tree, rising from a sandblasted brass plate whose worked surface - textured to suggest wind-driven ripples - becomes the water. The two-dimensional sacred landscape becomes a three-dimensional object you place a lamp on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eAvailable in two heights. Cast and assembled by hand in brass. Exclusive to Australia at The Leopard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sumphat","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49023125455075,"sku":null,"price":5500.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/5230\/2051\/files\/KHING-TABLE-2.jpg?v=1779947732"},{"product_id":"khing-vase-spring","title":"Khing vase: Spring","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe pikul grows along village paths and temple grounds across Thailand - a small, unassuming flower, its blossoms white, its scent carried further than you would expect from something so modest. It does not court attention. Thai culture has long associated it with grace, serenity, and a particular quality of quiet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRush Pleansuk chose it for that quality. The Khing Spring Vase takes the pikul as its subject and the Bunga Mas - the golden tribute tree of Thai royal ceremony - as its form. The set comprises three separate brass sculptures - one standing 48 centimetres tall, two at approximately 35 centimetres - each a tangle of slender branches rooted at the base and scattered with cast pikul blossoms. Arranged together, they form a grove. Where you place them, and how, is yours to decide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eEach branch holds a small tube: for a stem, for a candle. The brass will age. Any flowers you place here will not last. That is also the point.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThree pieces, sold as a set. Cast in brass. Exclusive to Australia at The Leopard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sumphat","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49023126503651,"sku":null,"price":690.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/5230\/2051\/files\/Screenshot_2026-05-28_at_4.30.49_pm.png?v=1779949913"},{"product_id":"khing-vase-berry","title":"Khing vase: Berry","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe eggplant flower is not what anyone would call a ceremonial flower. It grows in kitchen gardens and along rural roadsides across Thailand - small, purple, unassuming, the incidental bloom of a plant grown for what comes after. It is not offered at temples. It simply grows where it grows.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRush Pleansuk cast it in brass. The Khing Vase (Berry) takes the same form as its sibling - three separate sculptures, one standing 48 centimetres tall and two at approximately 35 centimetres, each a tangle of branching stems scattered with cast floral clusters - but with the eggplant flower in place of a more obvious choice. The Bunga Mas tradition, that ancient form of golden tribute tree, rendered in the bloom of the vegetable patch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eArranged together, the three pieces form a grove. Each branch holds a small tube for a stem or a candle. The composition is yours to make.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThree pieces, sold as a set. Cast in brass. Exclusive to Australia at The Leopard.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sumphat","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49023169167587,"sku":null,"price":690.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/5230\/2051\/files\/Screenshot_2026-05-28_at_4.38.30_pm.png?v=1779950349"},{"product_id":"khing-vase-forest","title":"Khing vase: Forest","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eA few pikul blossoms appear among the branches - the same small white flower found along temple paths - but here they are outnumbered by leaves. Slender brass stems push through the composition like plants emerging from a grass field, reaching at irregular angles, more thicket than bouquet. Where the other arrangements in the Khing series centre the blossom, the Forest version lets it appear where it will and gives the rest of the space to the branch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRush Pleansuk draws again on the Bunga Mas, the golden tribute tree that once passed between Southeast Asian kingdoms as a symbol of prosperity and diplomatic respect. That object was formal, symmetrical, designed to impress. This one is neither. A vessel, built to hold whatever you bring from outside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe brass will age with handling. What you place here will not last. The branches will remain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eCast in brass. 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As resort development expanded across the island, the trees began to disappear: not harvested but cleared, because a plot without coconuts is worth more than one with them when the only demand is for accommodation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRush Pleansuk developed TOCO as a response to that logic. If the coconut has a market - a product with reach beyond the island, a reason for the trees to remain - the calculation shifts. The oil is cold-pressed from coconuts grown on chemical-free Koh Samui plantations: no heat, no chemical process, the fat separated from the flesh slowly, leaving an oil that is clear, uncoloured, and gentle enough for sensitive skin. Blended with coconut milk and scented only with coconut, it is formulated as a liquid hand and body soap. 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