Is your apartment up to date? Or would a designer scoff, “How passé!”? You’ll need more than throw pillows to keep up with Manhattan’s hottest design trends. Below are expert designers’ top ten trends for apartment living in the city.

Näckros Villa designed by Staffan Strindberg architecture in Sweden. The 12×12 metre Villa has six rooms and a kitchen, 178 sq metres of living area, 125 square metres of terrace and 74 square metres of windows but is crammed with technologies to enhance your lifestyle and create an ambience of tranquillity and harmony with nature.

If you love iPod, Phonofonices II is a gadget for your home. This limited edition (only 200) hark back to the olde school blasts out 55 decibels of your favorite jams using no power at all. The patent-pending Phonofonics II dock features two small crevasses that hold earbuds to amplify playback through its ceramic horn. [...]