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Felines First: Cat House Interior Designed with Cats in Mind

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT

cat friendly climbing

Cat-friendly built-ins are not an entirely new phenomena, but few clients go so far out of their way to include their feline friends not only in their architectural plans but interior photographs as well.

cat house climbing space

Hey!Cheese is a photography, art and design collective in Taipei, Taiwan – the group managed to fit a cat into most of their shots of these living, dining and kitchen spaces.

cat space in context

Some of the structures, like the scratching post, ramps and walls are explicitly cat features – in other instances, cat-friendly sofas and other feline favorites, like laptops, simply make their way into the picture.

cat centric interior spaces

cat home hall walls

But even without the cat involved, the design stands on its own as well – so while a later buyer might be puzzled by the ramping bookshelves, they are also aesthetically interesting enough to work, even without a furry friend playing on them. That, or perhaps a ferret, chinchilla or rat would find them fun as well.


    

Spatial Relativity: Average Home Sizes Around the World

Posted: 13 Aug 2013 10:00 AM PDT

tiny homes movement us

The tiny homes movement gaining traction in the United States seems like spatial extremism to some people – what average family could possibly get by in under 1000 square feet? It turns out that in some countries, that amount is actually already above average.

average home size meters

The above infographic (shown in metric above for our audiences abroad, but also in square feet at the bottom of this page) illustrates just how unusual the situation is in America. Outside of Australia, coming in near second and itself a land with a very low population density, homes in the US are huge.

average home size us

And this is not a historic constant for the United States either – it represents a huge uptick in average square footage over the past few decades, in which homeowners have demanded (or been sold) the idea of a larger home.

small homes in square feet

Keep in mind that these are averages – so for all of those large homes skewing the data upward, there are likely some ultra-small spaces bringing the overall data back down. Infographics and information via Urban Omnibus, BBC and Apartment Therapy.


    

Tessellated Furniture: Tetris-Style Modular Seating System

Posted: 12 Aug 2013 04:00 PM PDT

modular open space configurations

Escher, Tetris, tessellation and fractals all come to mind with this colorful set of angled seating elements. Though their shapes may appear unruly at first, any awkward first impression is quickly dissipated once you see the elements deployed.

modular chair seating system

Developed by Alexander Lotersztain, the one catch (or at least counter-intuitive element) of this Prisma set may be the fact that each color does not necessarily denote a single shape, as it would in classic puzzle-piece games, so you may have to work a little harder to see how the pieces fit together.

modular deployed seating arrangements

But once you get past that hurdle, you will find there are all kinds of formations possible, from back-to-back individual seats to stretched-out sofas with attached side tables, divided (or not) with backs and sides.

modular colorful seating system

The constituent pieces are themselves straight-forward: medium-density fiberboard with either fabric or leather finishes, the former available in bright and distinctive colors, or simply unfinished altogether.


    

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