We all want our living rooms to feel calming, and in 2025, that's arguably more true than ever. In tumultuous times, we seek comfort and refuge in our homes and, as a space for the whole family to ...

We in the West typically see only the top slices of Japanese aesthetics: the high-concept, glass-and-aluminum Modernism of no-expense- spared commercial projects or the steep-pitched roofs and ...

Sou Fujimoto, Shigeru Ban, and others experiment with communal housing in Tokyo. But within that context, there was one topic that came up again and again: aging, and how good design can help ...

If you love the serene minimalism of Japanese style and the warmth and simplicity of the Scandi aesthetic, you’re going to love Japandi. This design style merging the two has been around for at least ...

“The Yamamoto family values were forged in small spaces,” the Japanese photographer Masaki Yamamoto told me recently. For eighteen years, his family of seven coexisted in a one-room apartment in Kobe.

You probably saw that cool video of the Wii playing on a 1.5-inch TV. Here’s the set, which you can only buy in Japan, unfortunately. https://gizmodo.com/wii-on-a-1 ...

In the upscale Los Angeles enclave of Beverly Hills, a “stunningly preserved” mid-century Japanese Minka hit the market Tuesday for $12.99 million. The nearly 7,500-square-foot home, which exudes Zen, ...

A hillside house in Los Angeles, a Queen Anne Revival in Healdsburg and a Japanese-inspired home in Inverness.