A weighted version of Journé's lemma.
In this paper we discuss a weighted version of Journé's covering lemma, a substitution for Whitney decomposition of an open set in R2 where squares are replaced by rectangles. We then apply this result to obtain a sharp version of the atomic decomposition of the weighted Hardy spaces Hu'p (R+2 x R+2) and a description of their duals when p is close to 1.