Are you or someone you know an American living in Tokyo? Then HGTV is looking for you!

The Tokyo based architect and designer Junya Ishigami created these playful wire chairs for the Italian manufacturer Living Divani. He says “Chairs that live in harmony, like a family. Whilst they are all similar, each chair has a slightly different shape, and its own personality."

Traditionally, women in Japan tend to live with their parents until they get married and taking the step is often expensive, complicated and daunting. However Lacine, an innovative female support company based in Japan, recently introduced this new concept to ease the transition.

Two of Japan's most popular design stores joined forces last year to create Muji X Idee. The website is filled with beautiful images and fresh ideas for small spaces, perfect for summer and updated frequently.

Singapore is developing at an unimaginable rate and it's hard to keep up with its latest architectural achievements. Flashy new buildings (on mostly reclaimed land) create an impressive skyline but sadly these rapid developments comes at a cost; the city is left with soulless streets crammed with one bland shopping mall after the other.

Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi created this pop-up hotel for the Singapore Biennale that opened last week. It is a single room, temporarily constructed around the half-lion half-fish creature Merlion, a well-known tourist icon and mascot of Singapore.

Name: Cesa Milton
Location: North London
Size: approximately 1,200 square feet
Years lived in: 20 something years

Cesa Milton is a woman on a green mission, she believes we need to take responsibility for everything we consume and discard and she lives by her word. Almost every item in her home is recycled from her own (or bemused neighbors') waste and she manages to find beauty and use for trash in the most profound ways. Cesa is a passionate grandmother, artists and green activist and her home has become her playground and canvas. Her latest project is the crinkle-crankle wall she constructed in the hallway, complete with recycled newspaper bricks and peeping holes!

Name: Irene Capriz & Marcus Foley
Location: Hong Kong
Size: 3300 square feet — 1 bedroom
Type: Warehouse
Years lived in: 1

It's not often that you get to know a home before its inhabitants but this was the case a couple of weeks ago when we set off on our first house swapping adventure. With much anticipation we arrived in front of a rather unattractive, industrial building. We were anticipating a warehouse, but when people say they live in a warehouse they usually mean it was a warehouse or factory at some stage, this however was an actual working, vertical factory! The service elevator took us to the 20 something floor where we opened the doors to a different world - we found this delightful loft in the heart of Hong Kong.

On a recent trip to Osaka I visited one of my favorite Japanese design studios — Graf — and it did not disappoint! Located along one of the canals, Graf sprawls over four floors of an unassuming building: the first floor is home to a beautiful cafe that also offers workshops, the next a showroom and the top two floors house the studio and office where the Graf team masterminds their minimalist designs.

The Wallflower vertical garden is a modular planter system that has been designed to enable city dwellers to grow their own organic vegetables and other plants on sunny walls where ground space is limited. The system was designed by one of my favorite Cape Town designers, Haldane Martin — the mastermind behind the Fiela Feather Lamp and whose home we featured a while back: House Tour: Haldane's White Nest.