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

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30년 만의 재회가 바꾼 호텔 로비

11.03

신상호 작가와 그랜드 하얏트 서울이 30년 만에 다시 협업했다. 호텔의 LL층이 전시장으로 바뀌었다. 전시장에서 만난 신상호 작가. “1993년에 그랜드 하얏트 서울에서 작품 전시할 기회를 줬어요. 그때는 도예라고 하면 그릇 정도나 떠올리던 시절인데, 하얏트에서는 오롯이 감상을 위한 것을 만들어달라고 했지. 그 이후로 내 작업이 완전히 바뀌었습니다.

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