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

four pitched-roof volumes build timber-clad coastal house in belgium

October 13

Four triangular timber volumes shape coastal ‘ house of cards’ House of Cards is a coastal residence in Koksijde, Belgium , designed by Vantieghem Talebi around the structural and zoning constraints…

Natural materials

Read at Designboom ↗

One letter a week, starting soon.

Latest

four pitched-roof volumes build timber-clad coastal house in belgium

Related

1930s cider press screw becomes sculptural stool in reclaimed wood and brushed aluminum Designboom

sculptures made of timber and steel occupy raw concrete shell in seoul before demolition Designboom

Collectible Design Takes Centre Stage at This Interior Designer's Manhattan Penthouse AD Middle East

IndiaThis Rajkot home finds its sense of calm in limewash, stone and vintage details AD India

Le 14 mostre a Roma più interessanti tra arte, fotografia e design AD Italia

Brasil tem bolo de chocolate entre os cinco melhores do mundo; veja ranking Casa Vogue Brasil