Sight Unseen

12 stories

Sight UnseenAn Edgy London Interior by Max Radford, Three Experimental Design Exhibitions, and More Plus: Two Parisian apartments with really good art.

10.19

Sight UnseenThe furniture collection that’s about to revolutionize public spaces Plus: A new, bookmarkable vintage destination and the art style we're loving

10.12

Sight UnseenOld Spaces Become New Homes in Barcelona and Milan, the Best Fall Design Books, and More Plus: The Vermont design gallery that's worth a road trip.

10.01

Sight UnseenHow does an artist live? A new exhibition shows us in Technicolor detail Plus: Highlights from this year's London Design Festival

09.25

Sight UnseenA Paris Design Roundup, a Revamped ’90s Hollywood Gem, Art Candelabras, and More Plus: Collina Strada makes couches.

09.20

Sight UnseenNine great gallery shows to see this month, in New York and beyond Plus: Tracking the picture-frame renaissance

09.11

Sight UnseenHigh-design vacation rentals in Ireland and Shelter Island, a show in an iconic modernist house, and more Plus: What's Sight Unseen's favorite rug of all time? Find out inside.

08.19

Sight UnseenAn Iconic Midcentury Hotel Reborn, a Belgrade Hi-Fi Listening Bar, and More Plus, a shopping guide for chic fireplace andirons.

08.10

Sight UnseenA Hotel in a 6th-Century Monastery, an Office Channeling 90s New York, and More Plus: The butter plate of your dreams.

07.30

Sight UnseenSPOTLIGHT: A centuries old Murano glassmaker reinvents itself for the modern era Plus: How to start buying vintage glass

07.02

Sight UnseenA Greek gallery decamps to the beach, a beloved coffee shop opens in Chicago, and more Plus: Salt and pepper shakers that would make Deborah Vance squeal with delight

06.29

Sight UnseenI Expected to Love My First 3Days of Design in Copenhagen. But I Could Never Have Anticipated What Would Make It So Great. If you can believe it, this was my first year attending 3DaysofDesign in Copenhagen, and I went to the fair, now in its 10th year, armed with absurdly high expectations.

06.23

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