THE STONE FLOWER

The Oseira monastery is a bunker of stone and time. Associated with the culture of Galicia as an emblematic example of the monastic architecture that built what we now call Europe. It is much more than a sign of identity. The Galician people have found in granite a space of language.

Galicia is a country of stone whose apparent hardness contrasts with its melancholic atmosphere. During the winter, the grey colour of the granite shines like silver as a result of the water that moistens its skin, blurring among the clouds to the point of seeming to dissolve with an impossible lightness. It is the camellia flowers and roses that bloom at this time of year that illuminate with their petals these scenes of austere hardness, reminding us that, at the heart of every monastery, there is the paradisus claustralis. The most perfect recreation of the lost paradise.

Since its founding, the monastery has gone through various stages of destruction and abandonment. Generations of stonemasons and carpenters, of glassmakers, of weary knights, monks and plunderers have passed through its doors, walked its halls, cooked on its fires and slept in its cells. Again and again awakening the sleeping mass from its slumber.

D-Due’s little monk has come to liven up this collection, to joyfully remember all those, stones or men, who began to dream among the bare mountains. To raise that place of delights that was thought to be lost.

MANIFIESTO D-DUE

1/ To maintain and disseminate the knowledge of dressmaking and sewing through design as an essential asset that contributes to the economy and culture.

2/ To build a story from each collection in which the living space to which we belong is drawn.

3/ The need to pursue a working model that defends a proposal from the rural environment with a cosmopolitan spirit.

4/ The need to pursue a working model that defends a proposal from the rural environment with a cosmopolitan spirit.

5/ To also transmit our values and knowledge through the academic environment.

6/ Creating a durable product in terms of quality and design ensures sustainability.

7/ Not relying on trends favors rational consumption.

8/ Understanding our work as something enduring

9/ To work preferably with local suppliers.

10 / Understanding the creative experience as a fruitful dialogue between art and design.

11/ Understanding design from the perspective of function and emotion.

12 / To maintain a production system that boosts the local economy.