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

Designboom

boss design turns outdated furniture into timeless pieces with circular initiative

10.21

Boss Design’s The Loop revives discarded furniture When planning a space, Boss Design knows that an interior design studio considers more than its architectural characteristics.

Sustainable & circular

Read at Designboom ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

boss design turns outdated furniture into timeless pieces with circular initiative

Related

Japanブリュッセルに「KANAL-CENTRE POMPIDOU」開館。旧シトロエン工場を再生した現代美術と建築の新拠点 AXIS

The Birth of the Astral Techyak Cool Hunting

Expert Advice: The Retrouvius Guide to Using Reclaimed Stone in Remodeling Projects Remodelista

Japan堀部安嗣によるサステナブル邸宅。新旧の英知を集めて常に“快温”に Modern Living

IndiaGather under Swiss timber to explore how circular principles and sustainable design will shape tomorrow’s habitats Architect and Interiors India

red-and-white aluminum safety barriers convert into public seating at dutch design week Designboom