EMILY WHEELER OF FURNISHING FUTURES WINS TOP AWARD
April 24, 2025
Lapicida was delighted to sponsor the prestigious Responsible Design – Interiors Award at the 2025 House & Garden Design Awards in central London. The deserving recipient was Emily Wheeler of Furnishing Futures, seen here with Nicola Kemplay from Lapicida’s Belgravia Showroom, who made the presentation.
Furnishing Futures is an innovative new charity founded by social worker and interior designer Emily Wheeler. The charity combines social work values with interior design skills to create trauma-informed, fully furnished healing homes for women and children escaping domestic abuse who are placed in empty social housing or living with furniture poverty, and who have experienced multiple disadvantages and trauma. They do this by saving good quality furniture from landfill and partnering with the interiors industry, to design, fully furnish and decorate families’ homes.
Lapicida is pleased to be associated with Furnishing Futures whose ethos we admire. Re-establishing purpose and meaning to materials that have been loved before is the mantra embraced by the specialist Reclaim Division at Lapicida.
Lapicida has maintained and developed traditional artisan skills to transform rare and sought-after old flooring materials into stylish products, reimagined for contemporary projects. What can be more environmentally friendly than repurposing an antique floor for 21st century living – whether as part of a new build or restoration project?
At Lapicida, we can take a centuries-old floor, then use our in-house skills to turn it into a product that can enhance another property for a further 100 years. That same floor can subsequently be reclaimed and reused again in decades and centuries to come.
