Curves & soft forms

7 stories

The NordroomArched Shapes, Period Details, and Color for a Victorian Family Home Opposite the wild greenery of Nunhead Cemetery, this 19th-century house in south-east London brings a quietly playful sensibility to its Victorian bones.

10.19

Home JournalHong KongHong Kong Home Renovation: 5 Curved Design Tips for Small Spaces Curved design can work well in Hong Kong homes, but more curves do not necessarily mean a better interior.

10.15

AD ItaliaQuesto appartamento piccolo nel Marais di soli 25 m2 è tutto curve Organico e funzionale, questo piccolo spazio rinasce sotto la guida dello Studio IDA. In programma: linee morbide, tonalità naturali e materiali accoglienti.

10.19

LeibalArc·Haven Residence

10.17

YatzerCarter Williamson Architects Bring Curves and Colour to an Overlooked Sydney Laneway In Sydney's Inner West, Carter Williamson Architects animate an overlooked laneway with a curved, colour-filled studio above the garage. Discover how.

09.25

The Modern House Journal‘Something completely unexpected within’: Didier Ryan’s awe-inspiring Archway Studios, now for sale Words Wilhemina Madeley Photography Taran Wilkhu “Architecture often positions itself as solving or addressing constraints,” says Didier Ryan, founder of Didier Ryan Architects (formerly Undercurrent…

09.24

Coco Lapine DesignA contemporary home with a stainless steel kitchen and an arched coffee corner This apartment (via Wrede ) makes a strong case for embracing contrast as a design philosophy. The kitchen pairs an entirely stainless-steel finish with a burgundy-tiled coffee corner, and that…

08.21

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