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Laguna does some fantastic work, partnering with the global
charity Goodweave. How important is it to you that the company
continues working with this great cause to raise awareness of the
Charity and to help continue the Charities great work?
It is really important and ethical for me as an individual but also as a
business! It not only creates an awareness but also feeds and supports
the mechanism of the areas that the charity is working so hard to stop
child labour in the rug and textile industries of the East.
Thanks to Goodweave’s work, children have been able to go to school
and get an education as opposed to once having been subjected to
poor working conditions in the rug and textiles factories from an early
age because many came from poor backgrounds.
Goodweave has a rehabilitation centre (Hamro Ghar) in Nepal
which is the nerve centre for Nepal's rescued children. Some of the
rescued children are aged between 10 and 14 and are often illiterate,
overworked and physically abused.
We are proud to support Goodweave and in also knowing every rug we
sell benefits them financially which then also helps continue their great
work!
Recently Laguna has partnered with Squire & Partners on the
transformation of the former Victorian printworks in Southwark,
London. Could you tell me how this partnership came about and
how Laguna played a part in this fantastic project?
We had previously collaborated with Squire and Partners on previous
projects and were very excited when we were asked to be involved with
this one.
The designs for this rug collection were produced by Squire and
Partners, Eley Kishimoto and ourselves.
The brief was to create a collection of designs which grounded the
internal social communal areas through a series of different rug designs.
The rug collection had a series of bold block patterns and another
collection of flat woventextured rugs made to balance some of the
busier patterns of the other rugs they were grouped with.