New York City
400 sq feet
Residence: Luca Andrisan
Storage in general is something of a premium in New York City but for Luca Andrisani, storage evokes something closer to liberation, "I like the freedom of putting things away and hiding them," the Italian-born architect says. Particularly, perhaps, when your apartment is just 400 square feet. His apartment provides several lessons in space-saving ingenuity.
Andrisani had the benefit of exposed brick walls and generous 11-foot ceilings. But first there was some cleaning-up to do. The loft bed was taken out, the kitchen and bathroom gutted and the oak floors refinished. Meanwhile, a Sheetrock divider separating the living and sleeping areas was replaced with a new double-sided storage wall -- a sleek, white-lacquered assemblage of folding and pocket doors. Now the home's centerpiece, it cleverly conceals a rotating flat-screen television between two sets of those doors; one opens to the bedroom, the other to the living room on the other side.
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