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Us & Our Planet

This is How We Live [IKEA]
By IKEA
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Us & Our Planet, created in collaboration with IKEA, explores sustainable living by sharing stories from activists, artists, athletes, and entrepreneurs worldwide. Drawing on decades of IKEA's research into how people live, it highlights simple but impactful changes at home that contribute to a healthier planet. The book visits diverse homes and spaces across the globe, emphasizing the vital role our everyday choices play in addressing the urgent environmental challenges of our time.
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This book suits readers interested in sustainable living, design, and environmental issues, especially those seeking practical inspiration from global perspectives and everyday life changes. It is ideal for design enthusiasts, environmental advocates, and anyone curious about integrating sustainability into home and lifestyle choices.

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In collaboration with IKEA, this inspirational study explores how to live more sustainably - and well - based on the experience of both ordinary and extraordinary lives, showing how small changes at home will work positively towards sustainability for our planet

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Us & Our Planet, created in collaboration with IKEA, is an inspirational study that explores how to live more sustainably and well. Based on the experience of both ordinary and extraordinary lives, it shows how small changes at home can positively contribute to sustainability for our planet.

Since the 1950s, IKEA retailers have visited homes worldwide to learn more about how we live. Inspired by this approach, Inter IKEA Systems and Phaidon have joined forces to explore the greatest challenge of our generationβ€”living sustainablyβ€”through the lives of activists, artists, athletes, entrepreneurs, and many more.

Achieving a more sustainable life at home is one of the most pressing social and environmental challenges we face today as a society. Together with IKEA, we visit homes, workplaces, and shared spaces from Mexico to Moscow, Bali to Beirut, in search of ways to improve how we live.

Our everyday actions might seem inconsequential, but the future of our planet starts with us.

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'Engrossing' with 'beautiful pictures' that illustrate IKEA's innovative design changes, the book appeals to design enthusiasts. It is described as a 'coffee-table tome' filled with inspiring IKEA-focused lifestyle photography and resourceful living ideas by Publishers Weekly and WIRED. Reviews call it 'an inspirational page-turner' (Apartment Therapy), 'inspiring' (Hunker), and 'clever' (Architectural Digest), making it a great read for those looking to engage with social and environmental challenges creatively. Elle Decor Canada praises it as 'a great book to flip through if you're feeling uninspired by the planet we live on.'

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781838664893

Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 10 March 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Phaidon Press Ltd

Contributors:

  • Edited by Maisie Skidmore

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 198.0mm

Height: 264.0mm

Weight: 834g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Maisie Skidmore is a writer and editor specializing in fashion, art and design, and their intersection in contemporary culture. She is the editor of Noon, a biannual magazine that explores art and commerce, and a contributing editor of Apartamento, an everyday life interiors magazine. She is based in London.

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