Salvador Albacar, a furniture manufacturer from Valencia in Barcelona

Abstract

In  this  article  we  examine  a  furniture  manufacturer:  Salvador  Albacar  y Gil,  who  was  operative  in  Valencia  at  the  end  of  XIXth Century  and  the beginnings  of  the  XXth.  He  was  an  important  bentwood  furniture  manufacturer and  decorator  in  Valencia, and participated  in  the  1909  Regional  Exhibition  in the same city, obtained some patents of invention and managed to establish with success  a  branch  in Barcelona  (Balmes Street) in the 1910 decade. It‟s a good example of the industrial bourgeoisie of Valencia in  that epoque.