Look at the edges of the doors to tell if it’s laminated and avoid the piece if it is, because it won’t hold up well. Get off-the-shelf pieces and customize them to best work for you.
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Tables: Incorporate Storage
Pick something that either has really good lines—like a steel-frame coffee table—or a clear volumetric presence—like a piece with four solid wood sides. I like tables that have…
Articles
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Storage Slings
For those spots where a table will take up too much space and piling your on the floor isn't exactly appealing, try hanging a sling from the wall for a bit of extra decorative storage.
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Arch Support
Layer by layer, a crumbling 18th-century flat in the middle of Barcelona finds new life at the hands of architect Benedetta Tagliabue.
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Magnetic Walls, and Storage Made Sexy
When architects Hayes and James Slade of Slade Architecture renovated a three-story brownstone in Brooklyn for Ricky Kenig, the owner of the New York City's ubiquitous Ricky's NYC stores, and his…
Products
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Delicious Storage Units
We’ve never met a hot-dog vendor we didn’t like, and neither, apparently, has French designer Mathieu Lehanneur: The classic quilted street-food cart provided inspiration for his…
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Punch Storage Unit
Inspired by the repetitive spotted patterns on audio speakers, designer Alexander Taylor turned his attention from Folds, Tanks, and Twins, to create this family of products for the Britain-based…
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Ivar Combination Storage
Dwell Collections
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Storage Solutions
Our September 2009 Apartments issue featured petite places that pack a whole lot of design ingenuity into very few square feet. We went through our archives to find similarly clever space-saving…
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Creative Storage Solutions
We are suffering a shortage of good storage in our house at the moment: our bathroom miscellany is crammed into plastic drawers under the sink; magazines are strewn scattershot across our coffee…
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