Slow, illustrated reading about the places people live and the places they keep coming back to. Each issue is a printable PDF, delivered through Gumroad.
HOMES & INTERIORS · 21 COUNTRIES
Homes of the World — Issue 01
How people live, house by house: homes in 21 countries from Japan, Bhutan and Uzbekistan to Morocco, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, South Africa, Iceland, Mexico and Peru, with a watercolour of each exterior and interior.
A schematic floor plan, materials and light notes for every home
A design-vocabulary page for every country
A 6-colour palette per country with HEX and RGB values
25 long-running shops, cafés and bars around the world that you can still walk into, from a 1560 Kyoto knife maker and an 18th-century Cairo coffeehouse to a 1766 Dublin pub and a 1914 New York appetizing shop.
Every place checked as open on October 10, 2026
Address and published hours for each visit
A 6-colour palette per place, taken from the real rooms
Twenty-five places that have kept their rooms for decades or centuries, each one re-checked as open on October 10, 2026. Every place gets a two-page entry: a watercolour opener, then a page of practical notes and the colours of the room.
E. Dehillerin, Paris (1820): the story, visit details, four look-closely notes and the room’s palette.Café Sperl, Vienna (1880): every place gets one illustrated opener and one page of practical notes.Pellegrini’s Espresso Bar, Melbourne (1954): what to order, best time to go and good-to-know etiquette.The contents: 25 places across Asia, the Middle East & Africa, Europe, the Americas and Oceania.
What’s in each entry
The story: who opened it, what has changed and what has not.
Visit info: address, published hours (with conflicts flagged), price guide, best time to go and good-to-know etiquette.
Look closely: four numbered details worth finding in the room, from fixtures to floors.
What to order or buy, and a dated “Still open?” note with its sources.
A 6-colour palette drawn from the room’s real materials, each with a name, HEX and RGB values (screen approximations).
Plus a world map, an editor’s letter, a “how we checked” page and a field sheet for looking at old interiors.
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The illustrations are AI-assisted watercolour interpretations, not photographs of specific homes or shops. Floor plans are schematic and colour values are editorial approximations of real materials. Opening hours change, so check a place before you go.
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