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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SIP 咖啡面包店 / movs studio

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SIP 是一家位于哈萨克斯坦阿拉木图一家购物中心内的咖啡与烘焙店，由 MOVS STUDIO 设计。商场是一个人流川流不息、音乐嘈杂、明亮橱窗争奇斗艳的地方，因此设计团队旨在为顾客提供一个短暂逃离嘈杂的休憩之所。店名本身就蕴含了这一理念：“SIP（啜饮）”是一种细致、不慌不忙的动作，而室内空间则将这一动作转化为让生活慢下来的场所。

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