Masquespacio's office, a showplace for pieces from the duo's customizable Toadstool collection for Missana Co-Founders Masquespacio Valencia, Spain A chance meeting in a bar-restaurant in Valencia, Spain more than eight years ago brought two very different sensibilities together to form one creative team: Bogotáborn designer Ana Milena Hernández Palacios, who was working at Marrasquino on weekends to pay her tuition, and Belgian Christophe Penasse, a lover of music who studied marketing and had stopped in for a drink with friends. Hernández Palacios had followed her dreams to Europe to study interior design at Valencia's Barreira Art + Design. "As a child I loved to decorate my room," she says of her lifelong passion. Penasse, on the other hand, was focused ana milena hernández palacios 094 June 2016 hospitalitydesign.com christophe penassehttp://www.hospitalitydesign.com