I THINK WE’VE LOST our way a little as a society, building bigger and bigger homes,” said New York interior designer Gideon Mendelson, who frequently works on 10,000-square-foot houses “where it’s tough to make use of all that space for just the four residents.” When confronted with a 2,000-square-foot apartment on Manhattan’s West End Avenue (600 square feet smaller than the average newly constructed American house), he exercised his creative muscles in another way. For his clients, a couple and their 7-year-old son, he strove to salvage every possible square inch of the apartment. “Designing for the city is a lesson...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 20, 2018 16:26 UTC