THE VERY SMALL HOME Mathilde Martin including the Metropolitan Museum of

including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Opéra Gallery in Monaco

to ask him a thousand questions

Born in 1924

he worked for design publishers (Iittala

THE VERY SMALL HOME Mathilde Martin including the Metropolitan Museum ofThe Very Small Home is an inspiring new book that surveys the creative design innovations of small houses in Japan. Eighteen recently built and unusual houses, from ultramodern to Japanese rustic, are presented in depth. Particular emphasis is given to what the author calls the "big idea" for each housethe thing that does the most to make the home feel more spacious than it actually is. Big ideas include ingenious sources of natural light, well