If the legacy of modern design is any indication, compact living is an opportunity for functionality and versatility, and living with every object thoughtfully considered. Think of Le Corbusier in his Cité Radieuse apartments and Charlotte Perriand's micro-home, La Maison au Bord de L'Eau, or Eileen Gray’s multifunctional furniture. Design for compact living allows an Adam Stool or Chair 01 to offer itself as your step ladder, your stackable dining room chair, and your bedside table—and open up new possibilities for living in so doing.
Chair 01
Warm Brown Birch
Frame Room Divider
Natural Oak / Linen | Three Panels
Farmhouse Coffee Table
Dark Oak | Pond
Rivet Cart
Aluminum
KR180 Daybed
Light Natural
Adam Stool
Raw Steel / Natural Leather | H50
Single Shelf
Stainless Steel | D27 / W40
Folding Flat Trestle Table
Warm Brown Birch
Rivet Box Table
Aluminum
Folding Flat Chair
Warm Brown Birch
Beni x FRAMA Rug
Soil | Small
Scented Candle
1917 | 170 g
AML Stool
Pine
Wall Display
Stainless Steel | 375 mL
Shelf Library Desk Section
Natural Oak | H114.8 / W80
Farmhouse Trestle Table
Natural Oak | 120 Ø Round
Hand Wash
Apothecary | 375 mL
RM-1 Rectangular Mirror
Natural Oak | Small
T-Lamp
Steel
Heavy Towel
Burnt Orange | Hand TowelIn the confines of a city apartment or a remote cabin, every design decision must be generous in thought—making up for generosity of space in short supply. One way to do this is to create expanse within your small space through multipurpose living pieces. In Eileen Gray’s Villa E-1027 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, drawers are built into room dividers so as to create definition, privacy, and storage (and minimize clutter, an essential for a small space).
In the FRAMA universe, the Folding Flat Table can be transitioned into a dining table as the workday shifts into leisure time. Each Folding Flat Chair folds down to four centimeters, creating extra space without straining the confines of an apartment. The AML Stool meanwhile, offers a sculptural shape that can act as a seat, a design piece in itself, or a plinth-like surface for plants and art objects. Beni x FRAMA flat-woven rugs incorporate material warmth to the layout without adding to the used space of the room.
Designs for compact spaces can be repurposed for different needs throughout the week or even throughout one day. The FRAMA Daybed offers the same transitional identity: acting as a bed for guests at night or a place of repose and quiet during the day. The Farmhouse Side Table or the Rivet Box Table or Cart can share this double identity as side tables for display and storage spaces to reduce clutter—or even minimal bedside tables for overnight guests. When guests depart, Chair 01 that aren’t in use can be stacked to open up the room.
Introducing a mirror to a small interior is a well-known approach to creating a sense of space, and in combination with soft lighting and self care products designed to complement interior architecture makes the most of limited space in a bathroom or kitchen. Hand care tubes or glass bottles are designed to seamlessly become part of daily routine with a minimal footprint—and bring in scent as an essential component to defining a space without adding to it physically.
For those with busy day-to-days in an urban center, the home interior should offer a calm antidote to city density. Lighting is one way to achieve this no matter the space at hand, whether the Cone Shade, which hangs from the ceiling in a manner that takes no footprint and gestures to Corbusier’s Cité Radieuse, or the adjustable T-Lamp—the FRAMA take on the archetypal desk lamp, with a simple mechanism allowing it to tilt and cast light from different angles without taking up more room. In order to introduce visual balance in a small space rich in wooden tones, Tasca stools and chairs offer variation in aluminum and the possibility of transitioning outdoors as the season allows. To minimize clutter, shelving like Single Shelves or the Shelf Library offer adaptable arrangements within the same small space.
Compact essentials for living result in the most imaginative design objects: paring furnishings down to their most effective features. In selecting multifunctional pieces that can work double-duty in the home, we create an adaptable antidote to the outside world that feels all one’s own—no matter its size.