Tado

When you think about your business, what are you most proud of?

From my clients without a doubt. It is not flattery.
It is like the continuation of the workshop work, the person who takes the piece also gives meaning and life to the object.
From having the shop clean and presentable, with stools to sit on if there is a need for calm and the pieces at hand, to touch them.

What is the history of your commerce?

I come from the suburbs of Paris. Curiously, I fell in love with the lines of buildings in series, the concrete around disturbing squares of vegetation.
Then I went to the countryside, a rural world with animals, a Delibes world, the vegetation ate up the little concrete. There I stuck to a patient and mischievous farmer, who taught me that you carry a stick in the field to walk, and why it should never be a wet wooden stick.
So first the form/matter, then the object... the French countryside was full of antique dealers warehouses or pick up everything .... in the middle of nowhere, they would open icy gates and bang! The guts of a castle, of a farm, of many people....There I dived in the midst of lives piled up, with respect and a bit of vampirism to understand what they were telling me.
But we went back to Paris. I like capitals too. Oh... I end up in Madrid, which is the impossible city that holds me with its skies and its people. I discover Spain, how the Spanish like their things too little and too much. ..... So much talent here. Tado is here to try to share it, to enjoy it.

What is your professional experience?

I have not decided to be self-employed. There is no other way to run a small personal business.

I remember a lot about Sybilla, who for me is the great Spanish reference in terms of subject/shape/tradition... When talking about creating a personal business, about her experience, I think she said something like: "I have made a lot of mistakes, I am still making mistakes"...

How has covid 19 affected your business?

We have been closed for 3 months during the confinement.
What can I say...apart from laughing nervously....
First of all: the customers! They have been wonderful, present, with their efforts to buy, to be there, to cheer us up. All of us small businesses have felt this, and for me it has been unexpected and overwhelming...
The first thing too: the suppliers. In my case the craftsmen. Well, the same. I have no word.