Old delivery truck outside, fast-transformer homestudio inside by Kirsten Dirksen on December 12, 2021 Vaughn Dabney bought an old food delivery van for $9,500 and spent $8,000 in supplies to convert it into a …
Folding 18-sqm beach-flat sleeps 5, feeds 10 + cocktail terrace by Kirsten Dirksen on February 16, 2020 To maximize an 18 square-meter apartment (a 194 square feet studio near the sea) for a family of 3, Ángel …
Convertible NY flat expands amid high ceilings & big windows by Kirsten Dirksen on July 15, 2019 When Robert Garneau first saw the 400 square foot apartment in Midtown Manhattan, it was a cramped space painted bright …
Central cube sets Paris micro-flat into work/living/rest modes by Kirsten Dirksen on June 23, 2019 To create more functionality in a 16-square-meter (172-square-foot) Paris apartment, designers Elisa Nobile and Enrico Bona created a custom cabinet …
Bottom-up urbanism solves urgent housing needs in CA vicinity by Kirsten Dirksen on February 3, 2019 When Johnny Sanphillippo wanted to upsize his 700-square-foot home in Sonoma County, California, he discovered that a legal backyard cottage …
Italian family shapes high end space-saving furniture by Kirsten Dirksen on December 16, 2018 A half century ago, the Colombo family took the ugly wall bed and remade it into something stylish, easy-to-use, and …
Graham Hill’s NYC tiny flat #2 attunes L space to moment by Kirsten Dirksen on August 12, 2018 Graham Hill began experimenting with small space living in 2010 when he bought two units in a pre-war coop in …
Fluid NYC flat uses sliding furniture to create 3 rooms in 1 by Kirsten Dirksen on July 30, 2018 Russian architect Peter Kostelov and his artist wife, Olga Feshina, wanted private rooms to work from home in their aging …
Pivoting wall adds/subtracts rooms in NYC modular micro-flat by Kirsten Dirksen on June 24, 2018 When architect Robert Garneau was asked to turn a Manhattan prewar studio into an apartment that would sleep 6 and …
Furniture meets robotics: superpower to show/hide what’s used by Kirsten Dirksen on August 21, 2016 Robotics-engineer-turned-entrepreneur Hasier Larrea wants to give furniture superpowers. In response to rising rents and populations in global cities, he has …
