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

← Uchi Archive

House & Garden

Ben Pentreath turns his hand to an Arts and Crafts house in north London

September 15

Combining colour and texture with interesting pieces from different periods, the designer has given each room of this large house its own distinct personality

Craft & handmade Houses

Read at House & Garden ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

Ben Pentreath turns his hand to an Arts and Crafts house in north London

Related

Korea로에베와 박종진 작가가 쌓아 올린 ‘시간의 층위’ Monthly Design

The Anti-Surburban New Build that Prioritizes Craft Over Decoration, Community Over Privacy Remodelista

TDF’s Picks: Everything Our Team Is Adding To Cart This Spring The Design Files

YSG Studio Weaves Cosmic Patterns Into a Balinese Retreat est living

Livingceramics Openhouse

8 outstanding homes that show what is possible with custom joinery Elle Decoration UK