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 Germany

Eleganz trifft Exzentrik: Diese Pariser Pied-à-terre-Wohnung wurde von einem Roman aus den 1960ern inspiriert

September 24

Lack, Wildleder und ein schimmerndes Wandbild aus Keramik: In Paris entwarf Giampiero Tagliaferri ein mondänes Apartment, das die Nacht zum Tag werden lässt

Interior

Read at AD Germany ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

Eleganz trifft Exzentrik: Diese Pariser Pied-à-terre-Wohnung wurde von einem Roman aus den 1960ern inspiriert

More from AD Germany on Uchi

5 spannende Farbkombinationen, die Interiordesigner:innen gerade lieben AD Germany

Von Bayern bis Brandenburg: Diese 13 Städte in Deutschland überraschen mit unerwartetem Charme AD Germany

Gemeinsam statt allein: Warum Lebensgemeinschaften die Zukunft des Wohnens prägen AD Germany

Ferienhaus in der Provence: Warum sich in diesem Wohnzimmer einer Familie nichts verrücken lässt AD Germany

„Best of Germany“: Die neue Oktober-Ausgabe feiert deutsches Design – mit einem Special über Bayern AD Germany

Lässiges Landhaus-Idyll: So schuf sich eine Mutter mit drei Kindern einen Rückzugsort in Upstate New York AD Germany