Smaller is better.

Which places multi-functional furniture at a premium.

Resource Furniture is betting big on both ideas – and plans to show the world how they fit efficiently together, in a 240 square-foot hotel suite at Dwell on Design, Oct. 9 – 11.

“It’s for an extended stay at a boutique, high-end hotel,” says Lisa Blecker, director of marketing at the New York-based firm. “We wanted it to feel luxurious and aspirational and really beautiful and very comfortable.”

Not to mention expansive – which may seem counterintuitive for 240 square feet, but isn’t.

“We wanted to see how small we could make it and still feel spacious,” she says. “We didn’t want people to feel they were like living in a cell.”

The firm collaborated with Brooklyn-based Think Fabricate, a design studio founded by Susan Doban and Jason Gorsline to furnish the suite with space-saving, multi-functional coffee table, credenza and cabinetry.

The collection’s called Kinetic; it’s an apt descriptor.

“There’s a coffee table that’s also a work table so you can sit at the sofa and work, and a walnut lacquered credenza with it a refrigerator behind it,” she says. “And behind one wall-mounted cabinet is an ironing center, behind another is a coffee/espresso center and behind another a bar.”

The space is designed to show the development community that it’s not only possible but desirable to reduce a hotel’s footprint. “If it’s smartly designed, it’s unnecessary to add square footage,” she says. “But people have to experience it, not just see it.”

For three days, they’ll have that opportunity at 82 Mercer in SoHo. Hours on Thursday, Oct. 9 are from 10 AM to 7 PM; on Friday and Saturday, they’ll be from 10 AM to 6 PM.

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