Living small is par for the course in New York City, but accommodating a family of four in under 700 square feet rarely looks as effortless as in this storage-smart renovation. Scott Oliver and Margarita McGrath of noroof architects created many clever built-ins and transformable furniture in this apartment. Photo by Raimund Koch. See how the rooms transform in this extended slideshow.

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Riffing on the Los Angeles phenomenon of people "murdering out" their cars—that is, removing all the trim and blacking everything out—architect Barbara Bestor and craftsman Eric Lamers covered most surfaces in this Los Angeles kitchen with matte black laminate, including the fridge and the overhead cabinets.

Back to the slideshow. Through the sliding doors is a proposed new dining room, with a lacquer dining table (Occa 684, $639) and upholstered dining chairs (Vega with brushed steel legs, $319) which are very comfortable.

Here's the first image in the slideshow, showing a plan view of the $12,000 "Keeping it Real" transformation. Christoper worked up the floor plan in BoConcept's proprietary 'Furnish' software program. It's pretty rudimentary but it does give a sense of spatial layout. Visible in the plan are the main things to work around, including our existing fireplace, doors, and windows (including our bay window alcove).

Here's a close up of Judy Jackson's pottery, bracketed by wood-and-metal candlesticks and Tunisian bath towels. If you like what you see, stay tuned for another Lost & Found slideshow, coming at you next week...

Jason Gec is a third-year student at RMIT and helped in the construction of the Black Teahouse. He remarked that Fujimori was "hardly a stickler about the building," and encouraged them to do the work as they saw fit. Jason took a lot of the photos in this slideshow.

The Falmouth, England, home of interior designer Kathryn Tyler is featured in our "Collector's Choice" story. View the slideshow here.

After a walk through all five floors of the VitraHaus, the built-in benches offer a nice spot to sit down, rest, and enjoy the architecture. For more about the entire campus, click through our photo slideshows Touring Vitra Campus, Part 1 and Touring Vitra Campus, Part 2.

Emeco recently collaborated with the Coca-Cola Company to produce the 111 Navy Chair. Each chair is made with the recycled material from 111 plastic bottles. Watch our slideshow from our trip to the North Carolina factory where the chairs are made to see the process from start to finish.

One afternoon last fall, the CMG team returned to the sculpture garden to add one final touch. As I reported in a Dwell.com post and slideshow, they 'inoculated' the volcanic stone walls with lichen spores to create what they call "the ultimate minimal garden." Over the next many years, the lichen will grow into patches of electric green and orange. The project architects Conger and Rayna Deniord, the project architect (shown here), conceived of the organism as a primal way of introducing nature into the otherwise spare, minimalist rooftop space.

The dome that forms the pivot point between the two arms of the kindergarten is this auditorium and gathering space. See more playful projects from the book in our first Play! Indoor and Outdoor slideshow. Play! is published in the United States by Berkeley-based company Gingko Press and will be on sale in September. Don't miss a word of Dwell! Download our FREE app from iTunes, friend us on Facebook, or follow us on Twitter!

A MODERN HOME IN A SOUTH CAROLINA MARSH In our July/August issue we profile a stunning modern home designed by architect James Choate of the Atlanta firm Surber Barber Choate & Hertlein. Located in a 5,000-acre nature preserve in South Carolina, the house is a rare instance of bold contemporary architecture in the region; as Choate puts it, "to put a contemporary house in the Lowcountry is a real shocker." We shared a single image in our Houses We Love column; to see more of the glass-walled great room, inside and out, click through our slideshow.

Specialty drawers like spice drawers, customized freezers, and other specialty appliances often use ball-bearing slides, tracks and latches in concert with cabinet pulls. Here, modern brushed nickel pulls are used in a very wide, rectangular setting.

Sideshow! textiles by Richard Saja at The Future Perfect.

Creative Director (and slideshow photographer!) Alejandro Chavetta.

Master Japanese architect Terunobu Fujimori is an original thinker, and a pro at melding ancient traditions with modern design. So who better to offer a quick primer on how to char your own cedar wood, in order to seal the wood against rot, rain, and fire? Here, six (only slightly dangerous!) steps to transform your boards into surprisingly sleek and smart siding. To see this kind of cladding in action, check out our Facade Focus slideshow. Fujimori, demonstrating the process of charring cedar boards, packs newspaper into the base of three planks that have been bound together. To begin the charring process, the newspaper that has been packed between the boards is set on fire.

For more designs by Prouvé, see our slideshow on the revolutionary designer.

Early commissions came from locally based brands Pacific Iron and Glenn of California, through which he worked with greats such as Greta Magnusson Grossman. In 1953, he began his longtime collaboration with North Carolina manufacturer Thayer Coggin, which still produces his classic designs—including the Tighten Up Recliner, see next slide—to this day. First introduced in 1965, the chair stows a host of hidden luxuries and finely crafted details beneath its understated appearance, including a reclining mechanism and a walnut frame.

Philadelphia-based landscape designer Margie Ruddick takes to the Sustainable Design stage at Dwell on Design Saturday, June 22 at 11:30 a.m. In the following slideshow, we share a handful of projects that were recognized by the Cooper-Hewitt in awarding her a National Design Award for Landscape Architecture. Read a Q&A with Ruddick here. Queens Plaza, Long Island City, NY, 2012. Landscape design: Margie Ruddick. Urban design: Marpillero Pollak Architects, Michael Sorkin 2003–04. Architecture: Marpillero Pollak Architects. Environmental artist: Michael Singer Studio. Lighting design: Leni Schwendinger Light Projects. Civil engineer: Langan; Traffic engineer: Eng Wong Taub. Photo: Margie Ruddick/WRT

The 12-acre site features 16 buildings that Evergreen is working to restore as well as space for farmers' markets and open areas for taking winter walks. Check back soon for a full slideshow featuring Evergreen Brick Works.

The porch at writer Bruce Porter's off-the-grid retreat on Ragged Island, Maine, boasts Leaf chairs by Arper as well as dreamy views.

Featuring reclaimed wood from the original house, a single sliding door covers only half of the kitchen pantry. As the door slides, china and glassware are revealed on one side; the other side holds Anne’s design library and favored heirlooms. The sliding door follows a track installed in the concrete underfloor; the shelves are supported by recessed steel brackets, strong enough to hold the weight of a man—or a baby. An additional full-size pantry is located inside the laundry room, toward the original bungalow.

The store was designed by Christine Ho Ping Kong and Peter Tan of Studio Junction Inc. in Toronto. (Watch our slideshow of Kong and Tan's own home in a renovated contractor's warehouse.)

I stayed in room 413, "Combo Moderna", designed by Kelly Palmer and Melanie Zanker. (Check back soon for a slideshow featuring the room and the hotel in greater detail.)

We snapped a shot just as workers poured the copper-brass alloy over a Bocci 19 series mold, click through the slideshow to see the rest of the process.

Homework at the kitchen table goes modern in the Bishop house. Check out the entire slideshow to see the home's creative use of reclaimed timber and angular geometries. (Pin)

Visit Mjölk in Toronto, Ontario, Tuesdays through Sundays at 2959 Dundas Street West or shop online at mjolk.com. Watch our slideshow of Daoust and Baker's favorite products in the shop.

The Church Residence in Michigan City, Indiana, is topped with a generous porch equipped with a hot tub and solar sail shades fabricated by Covers Unlimited.

Moreland House

Finally, trucks are packed with yards of colorful fabrics. The trucks drive to shops and ports and eventually transport the textiles to customers around the world. Watch our slideshow of iconic and favorite Marimekko patterns.

Fashion and design magazines adjacent to the Yakitate exhibition on the show floor dangled like chandeliers for people to flip through. Photo by Tammy Vinson.

What is Modern? and Olivetti: Innovation and Identity celebrates the forward-looking mentality of modern design and the industrial works of Olivetti. On view at the Denver Art Museum through October 2012. Watch our slideshow of images from the show.

Stacey and Doug get down to business making drinks. Photo by: JUCO Read more: dwell.com/slideshows/...

Another part of the park offers vistas of the harbor and the Sydney Opera House, whose multicolor, gloss and matte tiles give it what architect Jørn Utzon hoped would be an iridescent quality. (Watch our slideshow about the surprises of the Sydney Opera House.)

Project: Twelve|West Location: Portland, Oregon View: Community space Architect: Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects LLP Photo courtesy Zimmer Gunsul Fransca Architects LLP. View our slideshow of the 2009 Top Ten Green Projects.