Small Spaces: Stylish Ideas for Making More of Less in the Home by Azby Brown

Small Spaces: Stylish Ideas for Making More of Less in the Home by Azby Brown

Small Spaces is about living comfortably and using space wisely, and where better to find ideas on that subject than Japan, one of the world's most urban and densely populated countries? Tokyo resident Azby Brown, a distinguished architect and designer, has assembled dozens of creative solutions to space and storage problems, illustrating them with photographs and plans of actual living environments in contemporary homes.

The key to his approach is what might be called The Three Cs -compact, comfortable, and convenient. Use of space is reconsidered, with easy living always the uppermost goal. A living room is opened up by creating level changes or joining it with the exterior. A staircase can double as a chest of drawers, a space beneath the floor can serve as a kitchen pantry or hiding place for a disappearing bed: an adjustable table can serve different purposes at different heights. From top to bottom, in bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and hall, Azby Brown presents solutions to the problems of inner space, illustrated with dozens of full-color photographs, drawings, and architectural plans.

Small Spaces will be a lifesaver for all those with growing families, shrinking resources, and limited room to grow-or indeed anyone who wants to transform a disorganized, cluttered environment into an orderly, attractive living area.

AZBY BROWN was born and reared in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. He went to Yale College to study architecture. He got a grant from the Japanese Ministry of Education in 1985 to conduct study at the University of Tokyo's Architecture Department, where he earned a master's degree in 1988. He is the author of The Genius of Japanese Carpentry, Little Spaces, and The Japanese Dream Home, among others. In 1995, he obtained a job as Associate Professor of Architecture Design at Kanazawa Institute of Technology, where he also worked in the Department of Media Informatics.

He founded the Future Design Institute in Tokyo, where he is now Director. Brown, his wife, and their son live in Yokohama.

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ISBN 13	9784770020840
ISBN 10	4770020848
Title	Small Spaces: Stylish Ideas for Making More of Less in the Home
Author	Azby Brown
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Kodansha America, Inc
Year published	1996-09-01
Number of pages	96
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