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Simple but Elegant: Small Storage-Rich Parisian Apartment

Posted: 17 Oct 2013 10:00 AM PDT

kabinett apartment paris

A former manufacturing workshop in Paris has shed its industrial skin to become a modern, elegant family living space. At just 85 square meters, the architects at Septembre had to work especially hard to fit in everything a family needs without making the space feel cluttered or cramped.

glass walls and windows paris small space apartment

They achieved this partially by keeping the color scheme monochromatic. White walls, chrome fixtures and plenty of windows make the space appear larger than it actually is.

black kitchen small space apartment in paris

dark highlights paris apartment

Black highlights (or should that be lowlights?) add a touch of sophistication in the kitchen, library and bathroom zones.

built in storage seating workspace kabinett apartment paris

Built-in wooden cabinetry lines the apartment walls. The cabinets provide storage, seating, and a work area without taking up any floor space. This is undoubtedly the reason the architects decided to call this apartment Kabinett.

storage lined hallway paris kabinett apartment

Storage abounds in other areas of the home, as well. Tall cabinets line the walls of the hallway leading to the gorgeous white-tiled bathroom. Cabinets continue into the two bedrooms, making the most use possible out of the rather small floor plan.

black and white bathroom

bathroom window kabinett apartment

For a small family, this space provides all of the functions that are necessary for day-to-day city living. And being in Paris, it also happens to be magnificently stylish.

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Ghostly Household Objects Turn the Mundane Marvelous

Posted: 16 Oct 2013 04:00 PM PDT

transparent polyester furniture

The objects in our homes are the things that sustain us from day to day and help keep us alive and comfortable, yet we rarely stop to admire their forms. Sculptor Do Ho Suh makes it possible to enjoy household fixtures as objects of design and even beauty.

see through polyester furniture toilet radiator

The Specimen Series is a set of polyester sculptures which look like common home objects: a toilet, a bathtub, a refrigerator, a radiator and more. The lightweight, transparent sculptures look almost like three-dimensional X-rays or ghostly, floating apparitions.

specimen polyester see through furniture kitchen

Seeing any familiar object cast in a completely new and unexpected light helps us to see aspects of the object we would not ordinarily have noticed. These household fixtures, so bland and predictable in our own homes, become beautiful, delicate works of art with the help of an artist’s imagination.