Volume II — Number 107
February 2018
Monthly Newsletter
Newsletter
László Lukácsi • Closing after closing. This tremendous economic crisis that we have been suffering since 2007 continues to claim new victims in the world of artistic glass. Our politicians fill their mouths with opinions on the relaunching of our economy, but we continue to see how, one after another, long-established glass entities close because they can not continue to work because they can not sell their products or because they do not receive the institutional support that would make them viable. This is the case of La Mediterránea, an entity located in the Valencian town of L'Ollería and managed by the Abdón family. A family with long history in the world of glass that have been leaving the eyelashes since 2010 to launch one of the most emblematic factories in the Levante area of our country.
But, apparently, the longawaited financing that they Nuestra sede: have been seeking for the Castillo Grande de support of the factory has S.J. de Valderas Avda. Los Castillos, s/n not been found and this absence has brought them 28925 ALCORCÓN. to closure. (MADRID) info@amigosmava.org
The Mediterranean, in times past, came to export to more than 70 countries and to invoice 14 million
M. A. Carretero.
euros a year, putting on the market the production emerged from the fire under innovative and creative designs. They were different times. The company, constituted in 1975, was the maximum exponent of the flourishing and successful business culture raised on the basis of glass and exported to all corners of the world. Another closure that we believe has occurred is that of the Lafiore factory, in the Mallorcan town of Esporles. And we believe it because we have passed several times because of its location during our stay on the island in the first days of last January and we have always seen it closed and with a sad aspect of abandonment. In some specialized establishments in Palma we have confirmed the news of the closure, but through digital media we have not been able to obtain any confirmation of this fact.
Valarino, born in Cartagena in 1801, although his family came from Genoa, created in 1834 the glass and glass factory in the neighborhood of Santa Lucia. The beginning of a new business stage in 1908 would culminate with the very decadence of the business and was the end of his work and artistic life. The industry that gave so much fame to Cartagena from the first third of the nineteenth century is closed on February 2, 1955. The museum was opened in 2011 by the Handicraft Association of Glassmakers of Santa Lucia in order to disseminate the neighborhood's tradition of glass and become an essential piece to ensure the generational change in a century-old craft in Cartagena.
As we reported on page 6 of this Bulletin, the damage caused by several assaults on its facilities last December and the possible neglect of So I sent an email to the Mallorcan digital newspaper the City Council in supporting the activities of ultimahora.es to inform me of the current situation of this the Museum make it unfeasible to sustain it. factory. The firm Lafiore, specializing in decorative products of artisanal artistic glass, which mixes the ancient technique of blown glass with the most avant-garde and contemporary designs, it seems that it has not been able to withstand the crisis and has had to close.
The good news is that the City Council of Cartagena seems interested in the fact that the MUVI does not close, but the managers of the Museum have already had previous promises that have not been fulfilled.
On January 17 of last year 2017 we visited the Museum And the other bad news that and chatted with its we have been able to read in managers Manuel Gil and recent days is that published Carlos Calabria. by different Murcia media From this visit we gave about the possible imminent fulfilled information in our closure of the Santa Lucía Bulletin of the month of Glass Museum, located in February of last year. Cartagena. The bourgeois Tomás