Gessato

10 stories

GessatoCairngorm Cottage Architecture Office extends a Victorian cottage with reclaimed granite, making room f...

October 11

GessatoHabity, an E-Paper Alarm Clock for a Phone-Free Bedside A Copenhagen-designed bedside clock pairs an e-paper display with physical controls, ...

October 9

GessatoThe ZaZa Bench Visual clarity, a form informed by function, and a handcrafted build make the ZaZa be...

October 8

GessatoPhotosynthesis by Maxim Velčovský Abstract glass and porcelain objects that explore the intersection between light, for...

October 5

GessatoHouse With a Red Addition A timber-framed extension opens a Czech family home to the garden, pairing red corrug...

October 1

GessatoCasa Malonic A coastal house in Zihuatanejo organized around a circular courtyard and shaded rooms...

September 29

GessatoChalet Moraine A lakeside vacation home inspired by archetypal log cabins and the boulders scattered...

September 25

GessatoMorimado House by Yosuke Tomiya A compact timber home in Sapporo, where split-level living spaces offer changing view...

September 21

GessatoThe Baya Lounge Chair Natsumi Komoto looks to nest-building for a lounge chair made from bent stainless ste...

September 16

GessatoEarth Works: Houses by Byoung Cho A new monograph explores the Korean architect’s houses and their connection to the gr...

September 13

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