What is
Manacor, city of furniture: the largest center of carpentry and furniture factories in the Balearic Islands in the 20th century. From the village workshop to the hotel factory. It is not a piece of furniture: it is the system that made furniture for the entire island.
How is
- Family workshops of Castilian and rustic furniture, then hotel furniture factories (to verify styles).
- Painted caixes from the Manacor workshops (tourist mention, to be verified).
- Olive tree crafts for tourists (UIB).
How is fa
- Fusters, cabinetmakers, turners, carvers and varnishers in a chain of specialized workshops.
Com s'usa
- It supplied houses throughout Mallorca and, since the 60s, the hotels of the tourist boom.
Vocabulary
- fuster: carpenter.
- fusteria: carpentry.
- moble de Manacor: commercial label (to verify use).
History
- 16th century: roots of the trade (Sebastià Sansó, Els fusters de Manacor).
- 1944: 225 workshops; 1955: more than 300; 1977: 551 workshops and 1,754 workers (Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana; figures via extract, to be verified).
- 60s-70s: boom in hotel furniture: about 400 companies and more than 2,000 workers (Mallorca Magazin, 2011).
- 2002: 524 furniture companies in the Balearic Islands, the majority in Manacor (El Temps).
- Since the 80s: olivera crafts (UIB) decline.
- 2003-2009: from 5,725 to 4,111 workers (to verify source).
On veure'n
- Active workshops: MD Fusteria – Miquel Duran (Manacor) .
- There is no furniture museum in Manacor (please verify).
Why is it design
- Cluster of trade: an entire specialized town, like Inca with the shoe.
- From commission to series: tourism industrialized the workshop.
For the project
- Research: read Els fusters de Manacor (Sansó); interview retired fusters.
- Exhibition: «Manacor, city of furniture» with pieces and archives from closed factories.
- Trades: fusteria-mallorquina · fusta-d-olivera · ebenisteria-i-moble-mallorqui . Sheets: balanci-i-tibulet .
Frequently asked questions
What is Manacor furniture industry?
Manacor, city of furniture: the largest center of carpentry and furniture factories in the Balearic Islands in the 20th century. From the village workshop to…
What are the traditional words for Manacor furniture industry?
Some words: fuster, fusteria, moble de Manacor.
Sources
- enciclopedia.cat/gran-enciclopedia-catalana/manacor
- mallorcamagazin.com/nachrichten/lokales/2011/02/24/9379/mobelindustrie-runter-vo
- eltemps.cat/documents/el-temps_2002_09_0953_0046_0052.pdf
- repositori.uib.es/xmlui/handle/11201/149761
Working text from the Disseny Indígena knowledge base, machine-translated from Spanish.