When Damià died, his son Biel, grandson of the founder, who had just finished technical architecture between Barcelona and London, and who was already enrolled to continue studying industrial engineering in Barcelona, decided to come back and take over the family business. He believed in the recovery of traditional architecture and the promotion of the heritage and with these values he began a new phase of the company that has taken many more turns than he could ever have imagined.

The passion for architecture, for the crafts, and for a way of understanding Mallorca and the world, always combined with a vocation to go further, have led us to today, to an innovative company, still focused on traditional, but mainly on contemporary and international architecture and design.

Experience, a great team, and the support of wonderful colleagues and the whole family are the pillars to face the future now, and to contribute, through making collections, and customized or bespoke pieces, to the construction of a more diverse, more humane and more sustainable world.

Damià Huguet started working in the family factory. He was 16 years old, had finished the elementary baccalaureate, and decided not to go to Palma to study, but to stay with his mother, in the village, in a still very rural Mallorca that was beginning to change radically with the arrival of tourism. At first he worked alongside Guillem Mas, his father’s former partner, but from 1971 onwards he began his own path, always with the essential support of his wife Magdalena. In that Mallorca, more things changed in 30 years than in the previous 300, and the cement tiles, together with the handmade terrazzo and all that traditional, humble and manual architecture, gave way to a rampant urban growth. In those years, Damià focused basically on the manufacture of concrete beams, the main product demanded by the market. His main interest was always culture, in particular poetry, and the factory (in a very boring decades) was essentially a tool to support the family.

In the 60s and 70s all the factories of the island threw away the old machines, but he kept them, and in the early 90s, when the island was beginning to realise that all that uncontrolled growth and so-called modernity was full of mistakes, he tried to recover the old machines. But he was already ill, and after a few years of dragging a hard illness, he died in 1996. There remains the romantic and poetic legacy of having made the customized exposed beams for the two houses that the master Jørn Utzon built for himself in Mallorca. Rigour, humility, desire to work with his hands and to do things well. Existentialism and a lot of culture in some very complex years and in a more difficult land than many people might think.

90 years ago now, Biel Huguet (1908) founded a small company dedicated to the manufacture of cement pieces. In those years, cement tiles and a multitude of other prefabricated products such as beams, balustrades and sinks were basic elements in the island’s architecture. A Mallorca that was still very ancient, very centenary, which was beginning to industrialise. A factory like so many others. In every village on the island, in every neighbourhood of Palma, there were several. The same as in the vast majority of towns and cities in the western Mediterranean. Our history began in those years of great and traumatic changes. A history that Biel Huguet, an enterprising, enthusiastic and innovative man, led until his premature death in 1956. From that moment on, his wife, Margalida, a dressmaker, had to become involved in the factory while his only son Damià (aged 10 years old) grew from a child to a young man, and then to an adult.