Marc de Champeaux is the owner of The Gallery, an exclusive showroom for Chinese art, from traditional to contemporary. Marc, who was born in New York, moved to Phuket about eight years ago, after spending many years in other parts of Asia. He grew up in Paris where he first developed his design sense, before later spending twenty years living in China. While in China, Marc de Champeaux got involved in the garment and fashion industry, including creating a fashion brand for Chinese youth.
This grew over time to a brand with seventeen shops in various cities around China. His shops in Phuket, The Gallery, offer many varieties of Chinese antiques, and an assortment of carved figures and paintings. Oil paintings of late Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and other political statement art is on show in his shops.
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