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Kitchens & bathrooms: 27 stories in seven days, +14 on the week before.

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September 22

Core77Furniture Designer Chiara Verde's Cork Lounge Chair dIn the early- and mid-20th century, we saw the advent of chairs slung with leather. These were radical because they did away with supporting surfaces and upholstery, instead relying on leather…

September 22

Core77Strutt's Awesome Powered Wheelchair is Not a Wheelchair (For Legal Reasons) Let's say you've assembled a team and designed an awesome powered wheelchair. One that works better than incumbent designs and is easy on the eyes. How do you bring it to market?

September 22

The SpacesA vintage ‘treehouse’ hits the market in Portland An Oregon architect spent decades transforming this 1940s wooded house in Portland’s West Hills, beginning in the 1970s.

September 22

AD GermanyFerienhaus in der Provence: Warum sich in diesem Wohnzimmer einer Familie nichts verrücken lässt Für das Sommerhaus einer Pariser Familie baute das Design-Duo eine Sitzecke für 20 Personen, indem sie Eckbank, Kamin und Liege miteinander verschmelzen ließen. Möbel rücken? Überflüssig.

September 22

Architectural DigestWhy Designers Can't Get Enough of Jean Royère's Liane Light Fixtures Jean Royère's 1950s Liane fixtures are an ode to climbing plants—and more collectible than ever

September 22

Livingetc5 Things I Learned About How To Use Color Better At The Latest Livingetc In Session It was with huge excitement that Livingetc took over the wonderful Karndean showroom in Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, for another fascinating In Session event.

September 22

Wallpaper*What if Nature Comes First? The 2026 Oslo Architecture Triennale’s answer includes a sauna Introducing the 2026 Oslo Architecture Triennale , Line Ramstad laments: ‘Too often nature comes last.' Her simple response as chief curator for the global event, which just opened its doors in the…

September 22

AD FranceLa villa-refuge d’un architecte visionnaire sur les hauteurs de Los Angeles « Une maison doit vous accueillir, pas vous intimider. » Pour Adam Miller, le luxe se mesure à la chaleur d’un lieu, où chacun se sent libre et à l’aise.

September 22

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September 22

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DivisareOttaviani Associati, Federico Scarchilli · PORTA LABICANA Ottaviani Associati PORTA LABICANA. Roma, Italy Photo by Federico Scarchilli

September 22

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DivisareLocal Local, Lorenzo Zandri · studio Local Local studio. Athens, Greece Photo by Lorenzo Zandri

September 22

A room is a decision about how you want to be tired at the end of the day.

I live in forty-eight square metres in Tokyo with one good chair and far too many bowls, so I have had to mean that. I trained as an architect and left to write, which my teachers took badly. Uchi (内) means inside, and it means home: the room you come back to. The palette comes after the tiredness. So does the name on the lamp.

This is where I keep what the world's rooms are doing. Around seventy sources, read in Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Vietnamese, Italian, French and English: an apartment in Seoul, a house outside Taipei, a Copenhagen showroom seen from here rather than from Denmark. East first, because east is where I am sitting.

Each story is a headline, an excerpt of a few lines, one photograph and a link to whoever did the work. We never reprint the piece, and the photograph belongs to the person who took it. When a room was written up in Korean or Italian it stays in Korean or Italian here; the link takes you to the writer's own words.

I am not trying to be complete. I am trying to notice.

— Mio Tachibana, Tokyo