Laguna

Matteo Thun & Antonio Rodriguez is an award-winning architecture and design studio headquartered in Milan, with a subsidiary office in Shanghai. Founded in 1984 by Matteo Thun, the company operates internationally in the hospitality, healthcare, residential, office and retail sectors, as well as product design.

In partnership with Spanish designer Antonio Rodriguez since 2003, this highly acclaimed firm believes in an approach they call ‘Zero design’ – a rejection of design as an issue of taste, and the adoption of timeless simplicity as their strategy. They always search for the ‘iconic form’ and create things that people can understand intuitively.

For Jaquar Laguna, their overall vision was to design, for a global audience, a collection that makes a neutral, timeless, style statement – to ensure aesthetic durability and offer a long product lifespan.

The coming together of Matteo Thun & Antonio Rodriguez with a global brand like Jaquar Group is a meeting of congruent mindsets and complementary expertise.

Both companies are built on a vision of uncompromising excellence. According to Matteo Thun, “The strength of Jaquar is high quality – quality of design, quality of materials and the quality to implement an all-over design-vision.” Jaquar’s technical expertise and state-of-the-art manufacturing ability meant that there was absolutely no compromise on any aspect of Laguna’s design. “They translated and realised the entire design concept to a hundred percent. We are very happy to collaborate with a brand of excellence. We trust them and they trust us!” adds Antonio Rodriguez.