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Home & DecorSingaporeCapri by Fraser China Square Hotel Closed: Transforming into Hotel Stripes Singapore Chinatown, Autograph Collection The lifestyle hotel located at 181 South Bridge Road, Singapore (formerly Capri by Fraser China Square) has officially closed its doors under its prior brand to prepare for a major overhaul.

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ArchiproductsBurgundy wallpaper: 10 designer ideas for walls that steal the show Retro geometrics, tactile textures and artistic motifs: ten takes on burgundy that turn the wall into the centerpiece of the room 10/31/2026 - Intense, enveloping and sophisticated.

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LivingetcHere's Why Wallpaper is the Key to a Stylish, Design-Led Bathroom Perhaps a controversial take, but in my opinion, there is no room better suited to a full-on wallpaper moment than the bathroom.

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est livingMarble Meets Checkerboard in this Sydney Home by Smac Studio The 1980s homes by celebrated Sydney architect Espie Dodds pepper some of Sydney’s most exclusive suburbs. While beautiful, they’re often no longer conducive to modern living.

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Architect and Interiors IndiaIndiaDiscover how Thailand’s rich decorative history is reimagined for modern walls through this wallpaper collection In Jim Thompson’s Oriental Odyssey Wall Covering Collection, available at Dialogues by Nirmals, Thailand’s decorative history is translated into wall coverings with scale, patina and richly drawn…

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Coco Lapine DesignA small apartment with a sky-blue living room and a modern kitchen Bold color defines every considered decision in this compact home (via Stadshem ). A saturated sky blue anchors the living spaces while warm wood and soft whites keep the palette grounded and…

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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