Within the structure is about 290 square feet of den-like space holding a sofa, small rugs and stacks of DVDs and books.

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These may sound trivial amounts but 4 sq m is equivalent to having a sofa and small computer table in your house, Riba argues.

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One thing Mr. Rosen has also learned from staying in hotels, he said, is that guests often leave thinking about the small details: the pillows, the down comforters, a nice sofa, bath towels of a certain quality.

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In the neighborhood of Nisantasi, Istanbul's answer to Beverly Hills (and where a 88-room hotel is scheduled to open in early 2008 in the Macka Palas building), the Sofa Hotel opened mid-2006 with minimalist-chic rooms and a small but serious spa.

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Mr Blair himself works from a sofa in a cosy study next door, which would be rejected as too small by the personal assistant to any corporate big hitter, let alone by the boss himself.

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Of the 14 leaves of Washington's inaugural now accounted for, the last was found six years ago, in a most unlikely place: a small town in East Anglia, England, where it had been stuffed into an album lying underneath a sofa.

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