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

AD Middle East

Bvlgari Celebrates Indian Craft With an Illuminating Installation in Rajasthan

11.04

Through 4,500 hand-sculpted terracotta diyas, Bvlgari and Indian artist Doyel Joshi explore the relationship between craftsmanship, cultural memory and the rituals that connect…

Craft & handmade Architecture & Design Architecture & Design / Innovative Design

Read at AD Middle East ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

Bvlgari Celebrates Indian Craft With an Illuminating Installation in Rajasthan

Related

This Egyptian Villa in a Quiet Pottery Village Brims With Old-World Soul AD Middle East

Textile Artist Kamilah Ahmed Weaves Bangladeshi Traditions Into Her Tapestries AD Middle East

IndiaKunaal Maniar helps this South Mumbai terrace craft a new dialogue with the sea AD India

A new rug collection by Layered and Tom Morris reinterprets Britain’s textile traditions through Scandinavian craft Wallpaper*

In Praise of Wicker: 7 Handmade Baskets to Swoon Over Remodelista

VietnamKiến trúc sư Hoàng Thúc Hào khắc họa dấu ấn cho không gian sống bằng nghệ thuật sắp xếp màu sơn và đồ thủ công Tạp chí Kiến trúc