About · Almagro 42
The story of a club that almost was.
A palacete on Calle de Almagro, eight decades of padel, and a uniform that arrived after the courts were gone.
No. 01 · Origin
Casa Garay, nineteen seventeen.
A palacete built on the edge of Chamberí by the Marqués de Casa Garay. Three floors, a façade in pale Madrid limestone, ironwork balconies looking out onto a street that would, in time, watch the city change.
Number forty-two. Calle de Almagro. The address is the brand because the brand is the address — a coordinate for a club that, like most quiet things in this city, almost was.
No. 02 · Arrival
From Acapulco to Madrid, in three slow steps.
Padel was the invention of an industrialist who, on a Mexican afternoon in 1969, decided his garden could not fit a tennis court. So he built walls instead.
Enrique Corcuera’s afternoon improvisation in Acapulco crossed an ocean five years later, when Alfonso de Hohenlohe carried it to a Marbella beach club. From Marbella, the game settled into the courts of Madrid through the eighties — La Moraleja, Puerta de Hierro, Real Club de Tenis.
By the time the courts arrived on the streets of Chamberí, the uniform had already been agreed upon. White cotton. Tonal embroidery. A discretion that needed no explanation.
No. 03 · Practice
Made quietly, only after you ask.
Every piece is produced after the order is placed. No deadstock to discount, no seasons to chase, no warehouse holding things nobody chose yet. The cotton is matched to European partners that ship in five to seven days.
It is a slower way to make a club uniform. We think it is the honest one — small enough that the maker remembers your address, large enough that it arrives.
No. 04 · Crest
Laurel, crown, the number forty-two.
Laurel for the matches that go your way. A crown to honour the inheritance of the street. The number for the address — a coordinate stitched in tonal thread small enough that, courtside, only the player would recognise it.
It is embroidered on the left chest of every piece. Never printed, never large. The crest is for the wearer first.
For the city courts
From Madrid, only after you ask.
Drop 01 is in white. Three pieces. The uniform of a quiet club, finished with a tonal crest and a postal code.