Who we are

Muebles Vallés was founded by Antonio Vallés Devesa.
The company was born in Teulada in 1942, in the middle of the Spanish Civil War.

On his return to Teulada after his military discharge, Antonio established his own carpentry and furniture workshop on the first floor of his parents’ house, located at the present Calvo Sotelo street, 37, in the Raval.
The first journeyman he had was his brother Vicente, 13 years his junior.
During this difficult period, with many shortages, it was very difficult to work, since they did not have adequate machinery to perform the trade.

They acquired the raw material, the wood, in Denia.
It arrived in Teulada by train and from the station it was taken to the workshop by cart.
Once he received the orders from the clients to manufacture the furniture, Antonio prepared the budget and if it was accepted, the norm was that half was paid in advance and the other half upon delivery of the furniture already assembled in the house.
This first delivery in cash allowed the purchase of wood and other raw materials, since Antonio did not have his own capital.

Once the models and measurements were chosen, he selected the necessary wood and transported it by cart or car to a workshop in Benissa where they had the necessary machinery to work it.
There took place the process called “taking out of machines” and finished the work, returned to the workshop of the “Raval” of Teulada to manufacture the furniture ordered to finish them with the polishing.
Once they were transported to the client’s house, assembled and finished, the client paid the remaining half.
In this way, with much suffering and effort, the furniture workshop was getting ahead.

Antonio married María Oller Bañuls at the end of 1943 and they had two children, Vicente and Rosa, who, never better said, “were born among furniture”, since they were very young and due to the shortages that existed, they became involved in the family business.

By inheritance from her parents, María contributed a plot of land at 47 Colón Street, currently Maestro Mulet Borrell and the headquarters of the Red Cross.
Antonio, enterprising and far-sighted, with exhausting workdays and many sacrifices, built on this site the current building with a first floor and two floors to house the workshop and the family’s home.

After the work on the first floor was completed in the early 1950s, the workshop was moved there.
Years later, the family also moved there.

The workshop occupied the entire first floor.
The second floor was divided between the living room, where the furniture was polished and finished, and the family living quarters.
And the second floor was dedicated entirely to furniture exhibition.

Finished furniture was displayed there for customers to see and buy.
Only furniture manufactured by Antonio was sold because he flatly refused to sell furniture from any other source.
He said he was responsible for the furniture he made, but not for others.
He was a perfectionist in his work, a true craftsman and very intelligent.

He also worked tirelessly in his relationship with customers.
Many years later it was found that second generations of Antonio’s customers returned to buy from Muebles Valles because they remembered both the quality of the furniture purchased and the treatment he gave them.

Years went by and in 1967, Antonio, who had great vision for the future, foresaw that tourism would be very important in the area in the following decades.
For this reason he arranged for his son Vicente to go to England to learn English, and years later he did the same with his daughter Rosa, who traveled to France to learn French.
Antonio understood that, with language skills, his children would be able to better serve foreign clients who came to the area in the future, as it turned out.

But his children, Vicente and Rosa, faced an arduous task, that of convincing their father that, in addition to the furniture he manufactured, it would be good to market other types of furniture, since each model had its public and most of the stores in the area were already doing so.
It took a lot of convincing, but in the end the sons were buying and selling and taking charge of the new business while he remained in charge of the workshop, designing the furniture that he was asked to order.
So they also had to persuade him to move the workshop to the back of the building and dedicate the space on the main street to the new furniture business.
The new store, which cost a lot of effort and investment, was inaugurated on March 24, 1969.

It was at the end of the 1960s when the Town Hall of Teulada urbanized the current Avenida del Mediterráneo with the consequent commotion that this caused among the merchants of the center of the municipality, who saw in this action a threat to their businesses and companies, since cars would no longer have access to it.
The sons then encouraged Antonio to buy a plot of land on this important new road in order to build a large store with plenty of space to display furniture.
They were convinced that new times were coming and this was a good location, as it would be difficult for customers to travel to the interior of the municipality in the future.

Finally they convinced him and in May 1974 he bought the plot of land where the Muebles Vallés S.L. building is located today. Sadly, on July 11 of that same year, Antonio died in a traffic accident at the age of 63.
He was unable to see the family project of the new and spacious furniture store become a reality.

His children Vicente and Rosa, already married to Amparo and Paco respectively, began to plan the new store, which was inaugurated on March 23, 1979.
On the plot of more than 800m2, the building was constructed with a first floor and 3 floors, being the first building on Avenida del Mediterráneo to be built on the side facing the old town center.
Since then it has been open to the public uninterruptedly and has served customers coming from all over the world to buy furniture for their homes.

Vicente and Rosa, together with their spouses, the second generation at the head of Muebles Vallés, retired and the company passed into the hands of Amparo Vallés Pérez, daughter of Vicente and Amparo, and currently manager and alma mater of Muebles Vallés.