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

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10.16

휴가의 방식이 달라지고 있다. 낯선 도시를 바쁘게 돌아다니는 대신 호텔에 머물며 평소 미뤄 둔 운동을 하거나, 낯선 공간에서 아무것도 하지 않은 채 시간을 보내는 것도 여행의 이유가 된다. 올해로 10회차를 맞은 현대카드 호텔위크는 이런 변화에 맞춰 휴식의 선택지를 넓혔다.

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