Contradicting the idea that bigger is always better, this tiny New York City pied-a-terre located in a 1931 Bing & Bing building revels in its diminutive size and sense of intimacy, providing a small, self-contained world for a client who neither cooks nor entertains. The design scheme represents a variation and refinement of our earlier Jewel Box studio apartment project, in which the bed chamber is articulated as an independent volume floating within what would otherwise be an open, undifferentiated space. Here, the freestanding sleep pavilion, which opens out to the apartment on three sides
