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The houndstooth in the Houndstooth Valet comes in the perforations of the acrylic panels. It's a nice nod to menswear while also lightening up what could be a flat black surface.

The two primary components of the Houndstooth Valet are its maple frame and acrylic shelves.

We're big fans of Hans Wegner's Valet chair because it marries two pieces of furniture. Here, Dorthe seems to have taken a step ladder as his point of departure, another functional move for this handy piece.

Standing at 19" x 19" x 34", the Houndstooth Valet by designer Jonathan Dorthe of Atelier-D in Montreal plays home to whatever gentlemanly accoutrements you may need it to house.

Think Small features a nautically inspired New York home and a little red house with a lot of character in Seattle. Photo by: Adam Friedberg

Smaller is Smarter features this awesome, space-saving, 426-square-foot loft in San Diego, California. Photo by: Misha Gravenor

In our 2011 small spaces issue we checked out the home of a pair of design-savvy Portlanders. And in the cover story we check out a small New York spot remade with 36 commercial doors. Photo by: Nicholas Calcott

Lest you think the suburbs are breed only outsized homes, this Palo Alto abode proves otherwise in our 2005 issue Small is the New Big. Our cover story is about a San Francisco home built on a 20-foot-wide lot. Photo by: Todd Hido

We visited a pair of glass pavilions in Sonoma, California, and a 240-square-foot apartment in New York City. Photo by: Matthew Millman

Dwell June 2009 cover

The Boxhome is a great example of small Scandinavian simplicity and this Austin, Texas, bungalow gets a modern update without exploding its tiny footprint in our Small Wonders issue. Photo by: Pia Ulin

Check out this issue of sweet small spots, including our cover story on arhitect Per Bornstein's diminutive home in Sweden. Photo by: Pia Ulin

The rear facade. A system of sliding glass windows and doors underscore the indoor/outdoor nature of the house.

Langston-Jones works tucked in his office beneath the stairs.

The rear of the Chistopher Polly-designed Elliott Ripper house shows the most impactful design moves—windows that allow light and air to enter the house. Breezway Altair louvers, Viridian Comfort Plus low-e glass, and Western Red Cedar–framed sliding glass doors on the ground floor and pivot stay windows on the second story allow residents to control how open or closed the house is. Photo by: Brett Boardman

Wilkin and Pini hired Longma Joinery to build custom cedar windows and doors for their 270-square-foot addition.

Limitations—even in choice of wardrobe—fuel the creative fires of Dutch master Karel Martens. His influential graphic design career spans nearly half a century, and he continues to explore new ground.

Project Projects is helmed by Rob Giampietro (on left), Adam Michaels (on right), and Prem Krishnamurthy (not pictured).

Tina Roth Eisenberg runs a successful graphic design company, but is perhaps better known as the author behind the design-centric blog, SwissMiss. The self described Swiss designer gone NYC covers everything from typography to eyebrow dances, curating a specific cross-section of humor, design and inspiration.