“Get a hanging pot rack. It frees up more than one cabinet’s worth of space,” Perelman advises. The Enclume Contemporary Oval Pot Rack is available from Williams Sonoma ($700). For a more affordable option, consider this forest green rack by Old Dutch International ($80).

Keep your foodstuffs neatly stored and labeled in a chalkboard jam pot by Terrain.

Designer Christiane Hogner, Bruxelles

Metropolis Pots: Hand-built porcelain planters with a glazed interior and bisque exterior.

Simultaneously sculptural and pragmatic, the undulating form of the W Magazine stand’s molded plywood is both pleasing and useful. It’s compact enough for small spaces, though you may be loath to cover up the figurative grain pattern of the walnut with your magazines. $119-$129

This simple plastic-and-aluminum bottle rack, designed with a small footprint and made to be easily stacked, is about as straightforward and crowd-pleasing as a bottle of good cheap merlot.

Furniture with emphasized linear elements helps prevent the appearance of clutter in small spaces. It's particularly effective when highlighted in playful colors like the blue bench storage rack in this London guesthouse. Photo by Ben Anders.

A collaboration with Charlotte Perriand, this space-saving lighting solution suspends an incandescent bulb above a room via a nearly seven-foot metal rod. Considering it was created for the Maison Tropicale, a prefab housing unit meant to be manufactured in France and assembled in Africa, the small profile makes sense. The lamp can be adjusted and aimed via a wooden handle.

Magazine rack, $400.

Boskke's Clear Cube Planter only requires watering once monthly. Giving a clear view of plant growth as it happens, Boskke's planter brings transparency to gardening.

A built-in closet and chalkboard surface in the entry keeps things tidy and the couple's to-do list in order.

Orrill wanted the kitchen to be command central for entertaining, so everything is kept inside minimalist cabinetry—except for the copper pots and pans hanging on the back wall, painted in Pale Water by ICI Dulux Paint. The refrigerator is by Jenn-Air and the faucet is American Standard.

Bike rack by Artifox, $250 The sleek, narrow profile of this wall-mounted bike rack, designed by St. Louis–based studio Artifox, makes for both a space-efficient storage solution and a display unit for a proud bicycle owner. Made of solid hardwood and stainless steel, it comes in white maple (shown) or walnut.

Time to Design was established in 2008 to help young designers launch their career. Partners the Danish Art Workshops, Normann Copenhagen, the Danish Architectural Press, the Danish Association of Wood and Furniture Industries and OeO provide funds, training, mentorship, and accommodations for the winner.

The racks are carefully designed with SatinGlide™ technology for smooth motion.

Folio magazine rack.

Designed by Swedish designer Monica Förster, the Brushed Brass Flower Pots celebrate the shape of traditional terracotta pots and elevates the look with a luxurious material selection. Maintaining the historical production methods of the Skultuna factory, these flower pots are made through the traditional practice of metal spinning. Through this process, Skultuna is able to make a round three-dimensional object out of sheet metal. The brushed nature of the flower pot gives it a distinctive look that is at once elegant and edgy. The pot can be used for a variety of plant types, and makes a striking storage vessel when not in use as a planter.

Coffee makers like this Cuisinart feature smart tech in sharp packaging—but they still clutter my counter.

Antique tea and chocolate pots are juxtaposed with a 1930s painting by Jacques Villon, Marcel Duchamp’s brother.

PAPER POT TISSUE HOLDER Be sure you've got plenty of tissues at hand in a nice holder like this one...

Nir Meiri's 19 Pots Ceiling Lamp is made of discarded vessels.

"We find ourselves in the marginal group who still love a simple slice of toast and decided to design something to emphasize this as well as solve a problem that hasn't been addressed for a good 20 to 30 years," Pedersen says of this toast rack. "The size and shape of bread has changed, and so we found that our old inherited toast racks didn't work anymore! Our solution is a simple combination of a wooden breadboard base with a steel or brass rack, which clips in nicely and holds toast [slices] of varying thickness."

Rack of Coats by Plywood OfficeAssembled in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago using a steam bending technique, this combo coat rack–side table is a smart, space-saving solution for an entryway. $995

Although outdoor recreation company MSR (Mountain Safety Research) brand was founded to meet the challenges of backcountry life, its Flex 4 set will appeal to gourmet chefs whose culinary aspirations exceed their prep space. Nested together, the compact cookware set weighs less than 4 pounds, and includes two pots, two strainer lids, and plates and mugs for four

HARIO COFFEE DRIP POT $60.00 The Hario Drip Pot is a manual coffee maker, made for brewing coffee in small servings. Using a reusable cloth filter, the Drip Pot is an ideal vessel when paired with a pour over kettle like the Hario Drip Kettle. The filter rests easily within the top of the pot, which has a narrow, tulip shape to aid in the brewing process. The base of the pot is more bulbous, which enables the coffee to expand and grow its flavor once it works its way through the filter. After the coffee has brewed and the filter is removed—an easy task with the filter’s wood handle— coffee can be poured directly from the pot. The wood collar on the drip pot stays cool to the touch, ensuring painless pours, every time.

At just under 15 inches tall, it takes up some counter real estate. At the rear, there is a space to hold the excess length of the 26.5-foot power cord.

Hexa Stacking Wine Rack This modular counter top wine storage unit is made of walnut veneer and, like a beehive, can pack a multitude of storage nooks into a small space.

Loop Hall Coat Rack from Hay This powder coated steel trio of color ways designed by Leif Jørgensen can all tuck easily into a foyer for an understated way to keep those puffy jackets in check. $220

Christina Liljenberg Halstrøm's Georg Coat Rack 115, for Skagerak, hugs the wall and supports dozens of coat hangers (angled away from the wall). Clothing is one of the most voluminous challenges though this system doesn't sacrifice easy sorting and selecting of mulitple clothing articles for square footage.

A sturdy rear rack adds four square feet of storage space for groceries, tools, equipment, and other packages. To put that into perspective for delivery workers, the Spicy Curry can hold up to 40 boxes of pizza at once.

The Loop bike rack is a concept and prototype developed by the Federal, an Ottawa-based design consultancy founded by the industrial designers Ian Murchison and Rohan Thakar. (The name is a nod to their home base in Canada’s capital city.) By replacing the standard metal with flexible but durable rubber fortified with a steel chain, the Loop adds a dash of colorful whimsy to the streetscape. Image courtesy of the Federal.

This hanging rack meets all the requirements of the loft-owning glitterati: brushed anodized aluminum with a flowing, organic shape. Magazines must be folded to fit, but this Gehryesque flourish could just as well stand alone on your wall. Read more about the Wallpaper Magazine Rack here.

Paola Navone's Black 94 coat rack is black bamboo, stone and orange cotton pompoms. Designed for Gervasoni, the Black 94 is understated and naturally inspired, resembling freshwater reeds.

In addition to the standard two levels of storage, the dishwasher has a third rack for odd-shaped items like cooking tools.