How can I restore my system to a smaller drive?

I have lost my Macbook Pro that had 250GB hard drive, which probably had 230GB full of stuff. My replacement computer (for now) is MacBook Air with 128GB SSD. Fortunately I have Time Capsule with latest backup but now I don't know what to do.
I'd like to restore my system but I know I could keep some of the files on external HDD. For example my iTunes and iPhoto library has probably 100-120 GB altogether so I think the system would fit without these files.
How can I do this?
Another question - can I copy the sparsebundle file of my MacBook Pro from Time Capsule to external HDD and create exact copy of my old hard drive? Just in case, to have it on two places in case new Time Machine backups rewrite the old ones

Wow that's a lot of info. So:
I shouldn't do time machine system restore because I'm using different computer
Is migration assistant launched after clean OS install?
Can I choose specific folders to restore? For example I want to restore iPhoto app but I want to move my iPhoto library somewhere else.
Can I move sparsebundle image from Time Capsule to external drive? Macbook Air does not have ethernet and restoring everything over wifi would take ages I guess. Plus I want to have another copy of the old system somewhere else than Time Capsule.

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