Coco Lapine Design

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Coco Lapine DesignA pink kitchen, beige walls and mint green window and door frames This apartment (Styled by Olivia Lind , photographed by Frederic Boukari for Historiska Hem ) speaks in color, quietly but with real conviction.

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Coco Lapine DesignDifferent muted paint colors elevate the look of a cozy Swedish flat Earthy tones and considered layering give this home (via Bjurfors ) a grounded, lived-in warmth that feels genuinely inviting.

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Coco Lapine DesignA small apartment with a sky-blue living room and a modern kitchen Bold color defines every considered decision in this compact home (via Stadshem ). A saturated sky blue anchors the living spaces while warm wood and soft whites keep the palette grounded and…

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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…

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Coco Lapine DesignA grey shaker kitchen with a pink tile backsplash paired with a pink bedroom This apartment (Styled by Anna van Keppel , photographed by Jocke Ono for Historiska Hem ) leads with considered color and a fearless eye for detail.

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Coco Lapine DesignA contemporary home with modern furniture and limewash walls This historic apartment (via Historiska Hem ) carries the quiet confidence of a home that knows exactly what it wants to be.

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Coco Lapine DesignExposed brick in a modern apartment with a loft bed An industrial loft with a surprisingly warm soul, this unique apartment (Styled by Livin Deco , photographed by Mariah Sahlander via Stadshem ) balances raw texture with an earthy, considered…

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Coco Lapine DesignCozy flat with a vintage kitchen and a window seat Quiet restraint defines every corner of this early modernist apartment (via Historiska Hem ). Original architectural bones meet a considered, earthy palette that feels genuinely lived in rather than…

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Coco Lapine DesignPastel colors in a Swedish home with an eye-catching bookshelf Sage green walls and an abundance of living plants give this home (for sale via Svenska Mäklarhuset ) a grounded, natural character that feels considered rather than curated by trend.

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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