Issue 2

February 2025
Issue 2 of Never Too Small magazine invites readers to embrace a slower pace with its "Go Slow" theme.
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Issue 2
A Hungry Curiosity
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A Hungry Curiosity
A celebration of the late Italian designer Gaetano Pesce, whose eight-decade career spanning architecture, sculpture, and industrial design was defined by his rebellious spirit and unwavering orientation toward the future.
A Hungry Curiosity
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A Hungry Curiosity
Innovation, reinvention and curiosity fueled the six-decade-long career of the late and great architect and designer, Gaetano Pesce.
A New Normal?
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A New Normal?
A new book highlights the most exciting sustainable home designs from around the world.
A Strong Base
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A Strong Base
Interior design duo Wayne and Connie from FURNISHD and Studio BASE share their expertise on choosing the perfect rug and introduce their debut collection focused on effortless, high-end style.
At Peace in a Crazy World
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At Peace in a Crazy World
With her gravity-defying paintings and murals, Cinta Vidal invites us to pause and ponder.
Elevating the Mundane
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Elevating the Mundane
Dương Gia Hiếu is a young designer spearheading a design movement in Vietnam and finding the beauty and “poetry” in our mundane, everyday objects.
If These Walls Could Shout
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If These Walls Could Shout
Deep space and a deep aversion to grey distinguish Doug Meyer’s exuberant yet elegant New York apartment.
It’s Very Serious, but Everything is Absurd.
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It’s Very Serious, but Everything is Absurd.
Australian brand Dowel Jones celebrates a decade of designing and doing things differently.
Laulib House
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Laulib House
An Argentine architect transforms a typical Casa Chorizo house in Buenos Aires, creating a thoughtfully renovated small home that celebrates original features while introducing contemporary elements.
Living (Better) Together
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Living (Better) Together
Smaller footprint living is one way to accommodate our growing population and inviting more footprints into our spaces, from multiple generations, is another.
Master of Light
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Master of Light
A democratic spirit, left-wing politics and a form-follows-function ethos. Not all is as you might imagine in the shared history of Danish lighting design icon Louis Poulsen and Poul Henningsen.
Mid Century Multifunction
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Mid Century Multifunction
Who knew mid century furniture could become even more covetable and alluring?
Monstrous Magic
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Monstrous Magic
Repression is released with resplendence, joy and glitter in the world of The Huxleys.
On learning to live small
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On learning to live small
One woman’s personal journey from living large to living small and the tale of what she gained along the way.
Share The Sky
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Share The Sky
Send your slice of the sky to someone you love with Macarena Ruiz-Tagle’s delightful postcards.
Sit On Your Art
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Sit On Your Art
Is it a chair? Is it art? It’s both in the case of South-Korean designer Jongha Choi’s small-space-friendly furniture.
Skips and Stories
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Skips and Stories
Take a stroll through London’s King’s Cross and you might discover the beating heart of the neighbourhood in the last place you would expect.
Small Home: 19 Waterloo Street
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Small Home: 19 Waterloo Street
Small Home: House for Cosimo Piovasco
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Small Home: House for Cosimo Piovasco
Small Home: Laulib House
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Small Home: Laulib House
Some Thoughts and Tales About Patina
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Some Thoughts and Tales About Patina
Patina signals age, story and charm but where’s the line between patina and grot?
The Brick
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The Brick
All hail the brick. The selfless square edged lump that commits to being something bigger and better than itself.
The future of the (Tiny) home office
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The future of the (Tiny) home office
Six imaginative student designs reveal new possibilities for working from home in our compact homes.
The Vertical Belongs to Man
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The Vertical Belongs to Man
Meet the visionary behind Vienna’s Hundertwasser House: the godfather of biophilic design and stager of naked lectures against rationalism in architecture, Friedensreich Hundertwasser.
Urban Bathing
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Urban Bathing
The pleasures of cold immersion therapy, hipster hammams and river-float commuting… city folk are doubling down on the “universal delight” that is urban bathing.
Valuing the Vacant
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Valuing the Vacant
The Meanwhile Use movement is seeing abandoned and underutilised spaces being revitalised to inject new life and opportunities into communities.
Your City Bathing Hit List
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Your City Bathing Hit List
A curated list of good places to get wet and find calm in a city near you.