Designboom

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Designboomplayful covers made of bio-based PLA+ rethink the conventional light switch kovr studio gives an overlooked functional element a considered material presence.

September 4

Designboomdaniel arsham turns barley grains into moving sculpture for the balvenie at frieze seoul at space S50, performers reshape a circular bed of malted barley on the floor while an 88-year-old single malt is housed within an eight-layered patinated bronze sculpture mirroring oxidized copper stills.

September 4

Designboomles caryatides de guyancourt: a photo essay on the postmodernist complex of suburban paris designboom visits les caryatides in guyancourt to explore the iconic building in person and unveil its beauty and peculiarities.

September 4

DesignboomIKEA builds tiny houses to prove a point: compact spaces can hold identity reflecting insights from IKEA’s store and organise report 2026, tiny houses installation highlights a global cultural shift toward warm, lived-in spaces.

September 4

Designboomwhy entering the japanese design market requires more than exporting nordic aesthetics elna nykänen andersson explores how shared values and deep cultural translation connect finnish craft with japanese rituals.

September 4

Designboomtravertine, timber, and desert-toned textures shape groundeddesign’s villa limni in dubai interior’s restrained material palette extends to the exterior through a travertine-clad facade.

September 3

Designboomwhy japanese architects carve parking into tiny urban homes across japanese cities, tiny urban houses carve parking directly into their plans and sections to create a car-sized void.

September 3

Uchi (内) is a magazine, a radar and a diary about interiors and the way people live, kept from Tokyo for readers everywhere.

Uchi means inside, and it means home: the room you return to. A magazine, because every week one idea about living deserves to be read slowly. A radar, because we count what the homes and studios of the world are talking about right now — light, timber, colour, small rooms, the kitchen — and show it as it moves. A diary, because a seal is set each day in that day's colour, and the days add up.

We look east first. Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, Taipei, Hanoi, Bangkok, then Copenhagen, Milan and New York: the apartments, houses, cafés and hotels where interiors are actually being decided. Everything here links back to the people who made it; the images belong to their authors.

Uchi will keep changing: new sources, new signals, a little better each week, never finished. If a room here made you want to move a chair, that is enough.

Thank you for reading. ありがとうございます。