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

The World of Interiors

Is chintz is ready for a resurgence?

September 20

From 18th-century chintz-mania to the ‘Chuck out your Chintz’ adverts of the 90s, the Indian cotton textile has a history unlike any other

Craft & handmade Bookshop Books & Literature Textiles & Fabrics Textile Making

Read at The World of Interiors ↗

One letter a week, in your inbox.

Latest

Is chintz is ready for a resurgence?

Related

IndiaAnamika Khanna's sophisticated Kolkata home is an art-filled homage to tropical modernism AD India

JW Anderson x Wedgwood’s Second Collection Draws From Greek Ceramics and British Landscapes Hypebeast Design

Apple Watch Series 12 Returns to Ceramic, Fired Three Times Over Cool Hunting

A lofty home on a quiet mews, expertly reimagined by a textile designer The Modern House Journal

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

Livingceramics Openhouse