One of the most enjoyable aspects of design is that it often arises from young minds’friendship, who armed with passion and with very clear ideas, decide to join forces to create something unique. And even more interesting is how young people, more than others, are determined to keep a close contact with tradition and artisan production. In Madrid it happens at Micomoler, where three girls and a boy are committed every day to assert their vision of design, made of simple and clean objects, which exploit the most ancient production techniques and natural materials to create sometimes ingenious solutions. They thinks about an environment, between indoors and outdoors, which speaks of a shared and carefree summer, for example having a tea around Banquette, the “tea-bench”: it may be a single seat, but by placing the cushions on the floor, it turns into a tea table for four people. Cotito deals with the material contrast, in a console where the plywood structure and the marble top express a philosophical contrast too, between noble and humble, classic and modern. It is more of a compromise, between modernity and tradition, the one of the metallic chair Duler, with a modern and enveloping shape, where the past is remembered in the wicker weaving and in a nice feature: by adding two wooden feet it becomes a rocking chair. Objects to live the joy of small things, like growing your own vegetables: you can do it with Florencio, even without a garden or a greenhouse. And then there is Kali, the lamp where a wooden shell covers the fluorescent tube of light, and a series of complements that, with cromatic neutrality and materials concreteness, manage to establish themself in the environment as personal and unique.
