The progressive shrinking of city apartments, together with the widesoread increasing cost of housing, has lead to a search for interior designs that make the most of the area available, natural light sources and storage space. Interior designers and decorators have had to adapt quickly to this new reality by implementing resources and devices that are hardly ever used in large homes. The result is a philosophy of life centered on the small-scale, the flexible and the adaptable. It is not only the size of the apartments that has changed; our style of life has also been altered along with it.