Cerámicas Felanitx

Cerámicas Felanitx opened its doors between 1925 and 1930 in a shop in the interior of the village, specifically in Carrer de la Mar, which is now closed.

Rafel Mestre, grandfather of Francisca Oliver Mestre who currently runs the business, was a bricklayer, builder, and owner of a Mallorcan cement factory that supplied material to the shop run by his wife Magdalena Llaneras. Thus, the business was dedicated to the sale of construction materials on the ground floor and decorative ceramics on the first floor.

Subsequently, the business passed into the hands of his daughter, Coloma Mestre, who, with the collaboration of her husband Bartomeu Oliver, continued with the same type of sales until her retirement. However, the appearance of new construction materials such as glass ceramics and wrought iron made the shop small and inaccessible to suppliers, as it was in a narrow, central street inaccessible to lorries.

Thus, in 1972 the couple decided to open the current shop in Bellpuig street, which over the years underwent changes of ownership among the members of the family, to the point of selling part of it to an outsider. Finally, Francisca bought back the part that had been sold and unified it with the part she had inherited.

For a few years they had a kiln in which they fired the ceramic pieces and painted them, but nowadays they are not manufacturers, but only sell ceramic products, both Mallorcan and from the mainland.

As a curiosity, Francisca proudly tells us that at the beginning of the 1920s, her grandfather, Rafel Mestre, was the builder of the historic building “Es Sindicat” in Felanitx, the headquarters of the old wine cooperative, which has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest.