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

← Uchi Archive

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해가 짧아졌다. 계절의 변화와 함께 은은한 조도를 더해줄 조명 10가지를 소개한다. 다비데 그로피 Davide Groppi, 우마시 Umasi 종이를 입힌 갓이 케이블을 따라 천장과 바닥 사이를 오르내린다. 높이 올리면 펜던트, 끝까지 내리면 플로어 램프가 되는 조명. 밀라노 디자인 위크 2026에서 공개됐다.

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