Login

Cart

Your cart is empty

Stay Inspired

Get the latest releases, exclusive features, and more—straight to your inbox. Unsubscribe anytime.
Pretty Small - Grand Living with Limited Space
Grand living with limited space in Pretty Small a book by gestalten.
Living small is the next big thing. Cheaper to run, easier to maintain, and less taxing on the environment—small-footprint housing is becoming the first choice for people across the globe. Discover more about small living in Pretty Small by gestalten.
For the architects at Proctor & Shaw, the commission to renovate a cramped apartment in North London became both an exercise in innovation and a rebuttal to the idea that size is everything. Shoji Apartment is a project of small apartment featured in Pretty Small, a book by gestalten.
Living with a partner in a cozy space can be an intimate adventure but can also amplify differences. What helps are spaces that both connect and separate to meet a variety of needs. Creating intimacy by finding space apart with Pretty Small by gestalten.
A small apartment in Katowice’s design district was given a facelift by Mistovia to make it an eye-catching addition to the rental market. Perfectly positioned on the 11th floor of a 1970s block in the center of town, with views of the Silesian Museum and the International Congress Center, the apartment AFR Koszutka was redesigned to make it stand out from the preponderance of bland, neutral rental properties on the market.
Students and young professionals are being pushed out of cities by soaring rents and house prices. Could micro-architecture be the solution? Many student and commuter housing projects are also featured in Pretty Small by gestalten.
„The Tiniest House is for those who dream about building a house and believe they can’t afford it,” says Spanish architecture practice Aixopluc, which wanted to find a working solution to the problem of making old or derelict buildings inhabitable without a huge renovation budget.
ABACO maximized all available space in a small apartment in a 1990s Parisian building to create a singular home for two actors. As performers, the clients needed the living room to be open and dynamic, with furniture and functions designed to fit snugly into the boundary walls, leaving a stage for their practice. The principal furniture elements are united in a single, unique piece of oak furniture. This project by Studio ABACO is featured in Pretty Small, a book by gestalten.
The architect of this project featured in Pretty Small was inspired by the clients’ Greek heritage and chose to infuse the home with the colors of their homeland—the traditional bright-white paint found in Greek architecture and the blue of the Aegean Sea.
Shoji Apartment in London is a fascinating project featured in Pretty Small by gestalten.
Partitions in brick and MDF panels jut out from the central columns in a joyous zigzag formation. Constructed from glazed bricks in terra-cotta, white, and cobalt blue on pine frames, they achieve a combination of solidity and lightness that adds to the spaciousness of the home, as well as being inherently decorative.
With just a single window, Mistovia found innovative ways to keep the space bright, such as building the curved wall of the bathroom from glass tiles—also a nod to the building’s modernist heritage. Stainless-steel cabinets bounce light off mirrored doors and surfaces, and one wall has been stripped back to its original concrete. AFR Koszutka is featured in Pretty Small by gestalten.
Homes that help you inhabit a small space together while maintaining levels of privacy and individuality can help. Athens-based architecture practice SOUTH, for example, transformed an unused basement space in the Greek capital into a 40m2 (431ft2 ) custom studio apartment. While basement apartments tend to evoke images of cramped, windowless, damp spaces, this one, located in the Lycabettus Hill area, is quite the opposite.
The transformation of a former print shop in Madrid was a very personal project for two members of the Nomos team, as La Nave would become their family home. Featured in Pretty Small, the architects are making the shift from an open-plan industrial layout to a domestic structure, which required a complete recalibration of the space.

Pretty Small

Grand Living with Limited Space

Smart interior design makes the most of your home. This book reveals how design can deliver big comforts even in smaller spaces.

Language Edition
Sale price$29.00 Regular price$60.00

Tax included.

Free shipping over $49
Description

As our largest cities grow more dense, residents across the globe are turning the keys to smaller homes, and with it, embracing the limitations of a reduced floor plan with endless creativity. Pretty Small presents some of the innovative ways contemporary city-dwellers are setting up their spaces of solitude.

From the best ways to manage storage, to adapting rooms for use at various times of the day, this book showcases the many opportunities homeowners have in becoming inventive with their space. Pretty Small provides both inspiration and guidance on anything from hidden storage compartments, to ingenious bike mounts, and everything that lives in between.
Pretty Small - Grand Living with Limited Space
Pretty Small Sale price$29.00 Regular price$60.00

Free shipping over $49

Buy a Book, Plant a Tree.

FSC™️ Certified PAPER