Historically, a garsoniyer (from the French garçonnière ) refers to a bachelor pad or a "love nest"—a private apartment rented by a man specifically for hosting guests or romantic encounters outside of his primary residence.
Standard studios put the window on one wall. Figen Han insisted on a corner window (two walls of glass). This, she argued, tricks the brain into perceiving the space as larger than it is. "If you see the sky in two directions," she once wrote in a margin note on a lease agreement, "you forget the walls." figen han garsoniyer