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Cool HuntingRétromobile Brings Paris’s Classic Car Salon to NYC A new way to explore automotive art and culture Read Design Rétromobile Brings Paris’s Classic Car Salon to NYC A new way to explore automotive art and culture Evan Orensten 19 October 2026 For half…

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Cool HuntingThe Birth of the Astral Techyak How a legendary sneaker designer built a low-carbon, zero-drop trail shoe Read Design The Birth of the Astral Techyak How a legendary sneaker designer built a low-carbon, zero-drop trail shoe Michael…

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Cool HuntingWomen’s Hometown Down SE Jacket To celebrate its 15th anniversary, Jackson, Wyoming-based Stio released a limited edition of its best-selling Hometown Down Jacket in a denim print that brings a fresh point of view to the season.

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Cool HuntingHighlights from Los Angeles Design Week/end Founder Holland Denvir reflects on the independent festival’s third year Read Design Highlights from Los Angeles Design Week/end Founder Holland Denvir reflects on the independent festival’s third…

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Cool HuntingSmoothSip Slider Ceramic Insulated Travel Cup / Mug Owalla’s SmoothSip® Slider Insulated Travel Cup / Mug is lined with ceramic, which doesn’t hold the flavors and aroma from past contents and offers a less metallic taste.

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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