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HAYLa Pittura – New motifs familiar forms American artist Emma Kohlmann expands her La Pittura tableware collection – Italian for 'the painting' – with new motifs on familiar forms.

October 13

HAYMags Soft Low armrest with removable cover A HAY favourite, now with a removable cover available in a range of high-quality fabrics. Easy to remove and effortless to refresh, the cover features Velcro attachments that make it easy to change…

October 13

HAYCompass Floor Lamp by Julien Renault Compass Floor Lamp is French designer Julien Renault's newest addition to the Compass series, translating its distinctive conical silhouette from pendant to freestanding form for the first time.

October 13

HAYChisel Collection by Andreas Bergsaker What started as a single moulded plywood lounge chair has grown into a full family for HAY: a dining chair, a stool, two bar stools, and tables in 10 sizes across four typologies.

October 13

HAYBackflip Chair by Gudmundur Ludvik A good chair first, a folding chair second. At first glance, Backflip Chair reads as a conventional wooden dining chair – clean lines, honest use of materials, understated in a distinctly…

October 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