The Nordroom

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The NordroomA Light-Filled 1940s Apartment with Vintage Furniture and a Cozy Balcony Looking out over a large park in the Aspudden area, just south of central Stockholm, this three-bedroom apartment pairs classic 1940s elements with cozy interiors.

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The NordroomCozy Interiors with Antiques and Art in an Art Nouveau Stockholm Apartment In a beautiful Art Nouveau building in Stockholm’s charming Gamla Enskede neighborhood, this one-bedroom apartment pairs early 20th-century architecture with cozy interiors filled with antiques, art…

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The NordroomBefore & After: A Warm Color Palette and Built-In Bookshelves for a Swedish Home We’re heading to Gothenburg to see a beautiful before-and-after of a turn-of-the-century apartment transformed by a warm color palette and beautiful joinery in the home library.

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The NordroomAnthropologie Teams Up with Suleika Jaouad and Jon Batiste For A Colorful Holiday Collection A holiday table can tell a story long before anyone takes a seat. In Suleika Jaouad and Jon Batiste’s first collection for Anthropologie Home, that story unfolds through illustrated plates…

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The NordroomWilliam Morris Wallpaper in a Cozy Georgian Attic Apartment Set within landscaped grounds on the outskirts of Tonbridge in Kent, this three-bedroom apartment occupies the top floor of a Georgian manor house.

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The NordroomH&M Home Christmas Collection 2026 Brings Mountain Cabin Style To Your Home A mountain getaway sets the scene for H&M Home’s Christmas 2026 collection, with soft textiles, warm lighting, and Christmas decorations inspired by snowy landscapes and winter traditions.

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The NordroomBenjamin Moore’s Color of the Year 2027 is Webster Green We’re back with another Color of the Year 2027, and it’s another green! Benjamin Moore paint brand has chosen Webster Green HC-130 as its 2027 Color of the Year.

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The NordroomA London Family Home with a Pink deVOL Kitchen and Mint-Green Floorboards On a residential street in West Greenwich, this carefully renovated Georgian home brings together original architectural details, a bold color palette, and modern comforts.

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The NordroomPainted Ceilings and 1930s Elements in a Colorful Oslo Apartment Last week, I published an article about the lack of expressive color choices for the Color of the Year 2027.

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The NordroomWarm Interiors and a Large Roof Terrace for a Notting Hill Duplex Apartment On the first and second floors of a Victorian building in Notting Hill, this beautiful apartment was recently renovated by The Public House Group, creating inviting rooms where period elements and…

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発見, hakken: a finding. This is a record of what one designer notices in a week.

I grew up beside the Arakawa, in Adachi, and spent five years in a Ginza studio drawing identities for companies you have used without once thinking about them. That work teaches you to read a city as a page. A vending machine is set type. A rice bag is a packaging problem somebody solved in the eighties and nobody has improved on since. A good deal of the best design in Japan is like that: already in the street, unsigned, waiting to be looked at properly.

So this magazine watches the street as well as the feed. Around fifty sources come in through the day, ten of them Japanese, and what the world's studios are arguing about is counted and plotted so you can watch it move. Every third day I write about one thing I actually stood in front of.

What you get for a story is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the way out to the people who reported it. Never the article itself, and never the photograph as though it were ours. A story written in Japanese stays in Japanese here, headline and excerpt both, because that is how its author set it down.

Everything is also published in Japanese at hakkenmag.com/ja/.

— Ren Arakawa, Tokyo