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STIRIndiaDesign Democracy 2026 puts regional design at the heart of Made in India STIR explores craft, material intelligence and people shaping Indian design through dialogues w

October 14

STIRIndiaNGV s Plant Life traces the past present and possible futures of plant based design Through furniture, art and films, the showcase at the Ian Potter Centre in Melbourne advocates

October 12

STIRIndiaFriedman Benda displays creative genius as quotidian in Wendell Castle s retrospective The exhibition reimagines the 20th-century Scottsville residence of the American sculptor and h

October 11

STIRIndiaTallinn Architecture Biennale 2026 weighs architecture s cost against its aspirations The eighth edition of the international architecture and urban design showcase, themed How Much

October 8

STIRIndiaAlice Bucknell on yielding human agency and exploring futurity in their game worlds The game designer discusses their work and its manipulation of scale, scientific data and non-h

October 7

STIRIndiaDutch Design Week 2026 favours the raw and inquisitive in the quest for new futures Under the theme R.A.W. (Rebel Authentic Worth), one of Europe’s most awaited design festi

October 6

STIRIndiaCamilo Huinca s unconventional chairs are seats full of stories Wooden chairs by the Chilean designer reveals handmade forms and painted details that weave mem

October 2

STIRIndiaOn the money Assessing the cultural value of currency with the Euro redesign As the European Central Bank concludes a public survey to determine the new designs for Euro no

September 30

STIRIndiaQPAC s new Glasshouse Theatre reflects the ripples of Queensland s cultural aspirations The new cultural centre by Blight Rayner Architecture and Snøhetta envelopes world-class

September 29

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