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Core77Core77 Weekly Roundup (10-26-26 to 10-30-26) Here's what we looked at this week: A good idea for a lamp for Ferrari fanatics-- based on a 1970s East German design . Improvised tools: A creative "juggad" leak detector.

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Core77Industrial Designer Moritz Schmid's Patio Chair for Embru Swiss furniture brand Embru is teasing this Patio Chair , by Swiss industrial designer Moritz Schmid . The form somehow manages to make a shopping-cart-like grid look both attractive and desirable.

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Core77A Cardboard-Inspired Wooden Stacking Box This Stacking Open Box is by industrial designer Yusho Nishioka . Inspired by cardboard boxes, the "flaps" serve as handles. A 45-degree bevel on the top and bottom of the boxes allows them to nest.

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Core77Claire Lavabre's Industrial-Minimalist Lamp for Hay This Posto lamp, by French industrial designer and photographer Claire Lavabre , has an industrial-minimalist aesthetic: For her first design with HAY, Lavabre asked a simple question: what is a…

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Core77A Good Idea for a Lamp for Ferrari Fanatics This vintage desk lamp is by VEB Zweckleuchtenbau, a state-owned East German lamp manufacturer of the 1970s. It's a pretty basic Communist-era design, with no mistaking where the switch is.

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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