Tag: small scale | Apartment Therapy

Apartment Therapy On... Less for More

Move over, "less is more". We're penning another dictum about quantities: "Less for more". Those of you who live in tiny spaces may know what we're talking about here: paying more for smaller, more ...

Good Questions: Similar Small Scale Sofa?

I love the Festival settee from Designers Guild but there's no way I could go to London and haul one back. They currently have no distributors in the US. Does anyone know of something similar? (No...

Tiny Living: A Small House Movement Roundup
The New York Times 9.11.08

A steadily increasing number of people are choosing to live smaller — The New York Times rounds up some recent converts to the small house movement and talks to small-house developers who have...

Green Campus Housing: Elizabeth Turnbal's Tiny Home
Hartford Courant 8.12.08

Elizabeth Turnbul decided to bring her own house to campus when she begins her graduate program at Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. The 8' x 18' mini-mobile home incorporates thr...

Best of Three: Space-Saving Desks from Crate & Barrel

The newest Crate & Barrel Best Buys catalog features an almost alarming number of desks and work stations to help carve out a workspace at home. We decided to focus this Best of Three on desks that ...

House Tour: Alexandria's Spite House
NYT 2.29.08

We've seen this seven-foot wide house on television before (we believe it was the Small Space Oprah show), but this week The New York Times takes us inside Alexandria Virginia's Spite House. Built i...

The Best of Small Scale Furniture
Metropolitan Home: March 2008

Earlier this week, we posted Jeffrey Povero's small apartment featured in Metropolitan Home. Today, we're sharing the magazine's roundup of small scale furniture and we're happy to see that the best o...

Knicker Chair from Blu Dot

Straight from Minneapolis-based Blu Dot, the Knicker Chair is a dining or side chair with a simple form and relatively low price tag. With a wooden frame wrapped in foam and upholstered in a chalk o...

OneLessDesk by Heckler Design

This sleek and slim stainless steel desk is Dean Heckler's response to the bulky desks of our recent past (and even present). Heckler believes that with flat screen monitors and wireless keyboards, th...

Robot 619 Chest by Mario Botta

In a small space, it's important that furniture has multiple uses. The Robot 619 Chest, designed by Swiss architect Mario Botta functions as sleek tower of drawers and a small writing desk. In addit...

NYT: MoMA Commissions PreFab Housing

The Museum of Modern Art has announced plans for an exhibition on the architecture of Pre-Fabrication. Today's recent New York Times discusses the plans for the exhibit in Is Prefab Fab? MoMA Plans ...

Crate & Barrel's Spotlight Credenza

Sophisticated Storage. Credenzas are near the top of our list for multifunctional furniture. They look great and they usually hide a lot of storage. We usually prefer the vintage variety but they ar...

CB2's Regis Loveseat

Danish Influence. CB2's new Regis Loveseat reminds us of Design Within Reach's Malena Series and the countless Danish armchairs available second-hand. The clean lines and simple tweed upholstery com...