Gessato

10 stories

GessatoFusetti House Two traditional stone farmhouses become a unified residential space with minimalist i...

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GessatoThe Form That Remained Remnants of scientific and technological research become art in this series created b...

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GessatoWhinstone Brae A 19th-century farmhouse in Scotland transformed into a charming contemporary living ...

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GessatoThe Hope Lamp Inspired by ancient Roman sculptures and traditional pottery, the Hope table lamp boa...

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GessatoCasa T A restored watchtower and an eight-degree shift shape a family home by map architetti...

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GessatoMosse Woodland Studio CANICE Architects draws on local farm buildings for an artist’s studio and mirrored c...

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GessatoModular furniture designed for a museum Created for a museum space, this modular furniture draws inspiration from works of ar...

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GessatoThe Pitta Folding Chair Allyssa Kim’s Pitta chair folds into a slim wooden frame, giving its stored silhouett...

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GessatoCairngorm Cottage Architecture Office extends a Victorian cottage with reclaimed granite, making room f...

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GessatoHabity, an E-Paper Alarm Clock for a Phone-Free Bedside A Copenhagen-designed bedside clock pairs an e-paper display with physical controls, ...

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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