This is a very different book about the home, design and the products we choose. We begin with human needs and lifestyle requirements and urges. We present a kaleidoscope of ideas about living from both personal and planetary points of view. We've summoned the thoughts of experts in new materials, education, art, architecture, industrial, product and spatial design, business advisors and astute family observers - to create a volume which will make you think anew not only about the household, but life itself. Meanwhile, with equal intensity we've researched hundreds of products from around the world. We nominated innovative products and suppliers according to several criteria: the purely beautiful, the clever and functional, and those which represent the best in environmental terms. You'll be amazed by the ingenuity of many small manufacturers within, as well as a number of well established brands. You will not find another publication with the variety of useful, fun, stimulating, cost and eco-efficient, and simply REMARKABLE products between two covers.