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4 stories

HAYLa Pittura by Emma Kohlmann – New motifs, familiar forms American artist Emma Kohlmann expands her La Pittura tableware collection – Italian for 'the painting' – with new motifs on familiar forms.

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HAYMags Soft Low armrest with removable cover A HAY favourite, now with a removable cover available in a range of high-quality fabrics. Easy to remove and effortless to refresh, the cover features Velcro attachments that make it easy to change…

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HAYChisel Collection by Andreas Bergsaker What started as a single moulded plywood lounge chair has grown into a full family for HAY: a dining chair, a stool, two bar stools, and tables in 10 sizes across four typologies.

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HAYBackflip Chair by Gudmundur Ludvik A good chair first, a folding chair second. At first glance, Backflip Chair reads as a conventional wooden dining chair – clean lines, honest use of materials, understated in a distinctly…

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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