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01 Petite Places: Clever Interiors for Humble Homes edited by Robert Klanten and Tessa Pearson

(Gestalten, 2018)

uch like the projects it features, makes the most of the space available. Featuring more than seventy projects across its 256 pages, the book traces the history of all things small living – from the egalitarian houses of the Neolithic town of Çatalhöyük, to the “grand experiment of new living” in the 1920s and ‘30s, through to the present day. Le Corbusier’s

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