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

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Nazuna 箱根宫之下（Nazuna Hakone Miyanoshita）是源自京都的旅馆品牌 Nazuna 在箱根新开设的一家温泉旅馆。我们负责了该项目的改建设计。以往 Nazuna 的设计多是通过对木制町屋（machiya）进行现代化的重新编排，以此重新诠释京都文化；而在此次项目中，我们需要在箱根的一栋钢筋混凝土（RC）结构建筑内，展现出京都独特的韵味。

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