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Core77CMF's Milk-Carton-Inspired Affordable Portable Speaker This eye-catching Speaker S is by CMF, a spin-off brand from UK electronics company Nothing. The portable Bluetooth speaker's from was "Inspired by the sharp geometry of a milk carton," CMF writes…

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Core77Core77 Weekly Roundup (10-13-26 to 10-16-26) Here's what we looked at this week: To build a low-cost EV, Citröen dusts off the 2CV. ID firm Layer develops corrugated plywood that's strong and lightweight. Poka-yoke: Idiot-proof design.

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Core77Hinterher's Flexible Bike Cargo Trailers German company Hinterher makes bicycle cargo trailers that can be stored flat. The company was founded by architect and furniture builder Peter Hornung, who designed the first Hinterher trailer as an…

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Core77ID Firm Layer Develops Corrugated Plywood: Strong, Lightweight This Ripple table is by British industrial design and engineering firm Layer . Its construction was made possible by a production innovation: Ripple uses an innovative and sustainable new…

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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