What started as a simple collaborative project
in 2010 between two Netherlands based cousins
has now become an important initiative —
‘City of Miracles’ is shaping up the lives of the
Pardeshi community in Mumbai, India. The ‘City
of Miracles’ collection was recently displayed at
IMM Cologne 2013, the international furnishing
show and their product Paper Vase Cover won
the Interior Innovation Award at the event.
Pepe Heykoop had just graduated from the
design academy Eindhoven in Netherlands when
his cousin Laurien Meuter founded the Tiny
Miracles Foundation.
Tiny Miracles is a charitable
organisation which aims at the upliftment of
the Pardeshi community in India, which consists
of about 800 people living in the red light district
of Mumbai. Talking about how the project started,
Heykoop says, “She (Meuter) was looking for
someone who could teach new skills to the
community in Mumbai and I was looking for
a team to self produce some of my designs.
That’s where the two worlds collided and our
collaboration was set.”
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