TKE: How to make our homes kinder, with Frieda Gormley, House of Hackney co-founder

Beautiful Misfits

Mary Portas

Society & Culture, Business

4.5 • 834 Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Frieda Gormley and her husband Javvy M Royle dreamed up the idea for their interior brand at the kitchen table. Ten years on, House of Hackney is one of the most influential – and aspirational - British interiors brands. Best known for its use of colour, pattern and craftsmanship, House of Hackney also takes its wider responsibilities very seriously. It’s a B Corps, which means it meets the highest standards of social and environmental performance – in everything from its materials to supply chains. And it was founded on three guiding principles: creativity, compassion and consciousness. With our homes more important now than ever post-pandemic, how can we ensure that they are kinder – both to us living inside them, and also the people and planet surrounding them? Join Mary as she chats to Frieda about home, inspirations and using an ancient Celtic calendar to root their business in the natural world. To get in touch with team Portas, email us at: [email protected] Subscribe to the Portas POV Newsletter for musings, provocation insights and inspiration. Want to keep up-to-date with all things Portas? Follow us here: Instagram ** Linkedin ** Twitter

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Mary Portis and this is The Kindness Economy, a podcast that looks at the new values driving the businesses of tomorrow.
0:13.0	People, planet and profit in that order. It's the future. Are you ready for better?
0:20.0	Growing up in Watford wasn't exactly an immersion into the natural world.
0:28.6	I saw the odd bit of grass, of course, on the hockey field, the local wreck with my brothers
0:33.6	kicking a ball and the beach on holiday, but that was about it.
0:40.2	It's only as I've got older that my love of and connection to nature has really been established.
0:48.1	It started in my 20s, busy, busy, busy at work and needing a release. So I began running.
0:55.1	And I discovered London's beautiful parks and spent years exercising in them in all seasons.
1:02.8	My head always cleared by a spell amongst greenness.
1:09.9	And then nearly 10 years ago, my relationship to the natural world deepened when I bought a home in a beautiful Cotswold, Gloucestershire Valley.
1:20.8	It's surrounded on all sides by hills, and I spend hours and hours tramping up and down them.
1:28.3	Rain or shine, winter or summer, I walk and I walk and I walk.
1:35.8	And for me it's not about the exercise per se, although I know of course that that does me good.
1:41.2	It's more about the meditative space that being in nature gives me. When I'm out immersed in
1:50.0	the hillsides, wood and muddy paths, I really do feel my mind clear and I go into a place of true
1:58.5	peace and calm.
2:07.6	Walking those hills have strengthened me, seeing the seasons change, year after year,
2:09.6	has deeply connected me to the rhythms and power of nature.
2:14.6	And it's made me realise that all this is a moment in time, that nature is the one
2:21.5	true enduring truth. That is why I love this quote that I read on the website of my guest
2:29.2	today. It's by the author Marisha Mironoska who says, We breathe air from trees whose leaves are made of starlight.
2:39.0	Our veins echo the patterns of rivers, branches and root systems.
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