Cocoplum founder Ozge Fettahlioglu’s book on evidence-based, health-driven design has been recognised among a curated selection of exceptional lifestyle and wellness titles.
Designing for Health and Wealth, written by Cocoplum founder Ozge Fettahlioglu, has been awarded the Living Now Book Awards’ “Outstanding Books for the Year” distinction — a special recognition reserved for a curated selection of exceptional books chosen by the judges for their quality, contribution and impact.
About the Living Now Book Awards
Launched in 2008, the Living Now Book Awards honour the year’s finest new titles in lifestyle and wellness publishing, spanning categories from wellbeing and personal development to home design and sustainable living. Each entry is judged on the strength of its ideas, the quality of its writing and the real-world impact it offers readers. “Outstanding Books for the Year” sits above the standard medal categories: rather than being awarded within a single subject area, it singles out only a small number of titles the judging panel considers exceptional across the entire field of entries — a distinction few books receive in any given year.
What the Recognition Means
For Cocoplum, the award is a validation of an idea the studio has spent years putting into practice: that the built environment is not a passive backdrop but an active input into how people think, feel, sleep and perform. Bringing that evidence-based case to a mainstream lifestyle audience, rather than an industry-only one, was always the point of writing the book — and it is precisely the kind of contribution the judging panel says it looks to reward.
Ozge Fettahlioglu says the recognition affirms the book’s core premise:
“Designing for Health and Wealth was written to make the science of wellness design accessible to everyone — not just architects and designers, but anyone who wants their home, hotel or workplace to actively support them. Having it recognised by the Living Now judges alongside such a curated group of books is an enormous honour, and a validation that this conversation about evidence-based, health-centric design belongs in the mainstream.”
About the Book
Designing for Health and Wealth is a warm, intelligent guide to spaces that heal, energise and elevate — grounded in neuroarchitecture and biophilic design research, and written for real people rather than industry specialists. Across its chapters, the book unpacks how light, layout, materials, acoustics and nature-connection shape sleep quality, cognitive focus, mood and stress recovery, and translates that research into practical decisions for anyone shaping a home, hotel or workplace. It also makes the commercial case: environments designed around human wellbeing don’t just feel better, they perform better — in guest satisfaction, staff retention and long-term asset value.
The book draws on Ozge Fettahlioglu’s background advising hotel operators, developers and architects, translating that hospitality-grade rigour into guidance any homeowner, renter or workplace manager can apply. Readers consistently point to its case studies — real rooms, real before-and-after outcomes — as the section that turns abstract research into a checklist they can act on immediately, whether the goal is a better night’s sleep, a calmer home office or a guest room that earns repeat bookings.
The book is available now, in print, ebook and audiobook formats.
About Cocoplum
About Cocoplum | Neuroarchitecture, Biophilic Design and Interiors Cocoplum is an evidence-based practice specialising in neuroarchitecture and biophilic design for luxury hospitality and high-value developments. Founded by Ozge Fettahlioglu, the studio operates alongside Boxareno’s global manufacturing and modular delivery network, pairing research-led design strategy with end-to-end delivery for hotel, resort and residential projects. The same principles behind the award-recognised book underpin every Cocoplum engagement: design decisions grounded in evidence, not just aesthetics, and measured against real outcomes for the people who use the space. cocoplum.com.au
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Email: ozge@cocoplum.com.au
