THE Giant Lucena chairwhich was located on the old N-331, a stone’s throw from the Lucena Sur entrance of the A-45, is already history. suffered a sudden fall 19 years old afterward he got up like symbol of the thriving furniture industry of this municipality. The higher the climb, the harder the fall, says popular wisdom.
This striking construction is a good example. HE fell from the height of 27 that he reached and the Guinness record that it held on the ground, with the work of its demolition. Its end has come now, but it was already foreseen January 2023 that it could end like this.
Then, we learned that a company industrial refrigeration sector -growing with enormous force in this municipality- had purchased the facilities of the signature Huertas Brothersin which the chair was then located. The new owners informed the Town Hall of their willingness to transfer it for free if they wanted to keep it and relocate it elsewhere.
But it wasn’t that simple. This was equivalent to moving 9 thousand seats of normal dimensions. And in March last year, the Lucientina Urban Planning Directorate already indicated that the transfer quote “I would be quite highup to three times what could be expected. The chair could now sit and wait…for its demolition.
Their glory days. HE open July 8 of 2005 -The project began to take shape in 2002-. It was promoted by the Hermanos Huertas company, which specialized in the manufacture of chairs. Everything about her was enormous: a size equivalent to an eight-story building -it thus became the tallest building in the city-; one hundred square meters of ground; i.e. a weight of nearly 120,000 kilos.
In 2009, he lost the Guinness World Record.
Its dimensions were such that it housed inside, under a seat covered with large windows, a museum dedicated to the furniture sector and which was also a meeting room. This space was accessible by an elevator. The construction was a Goliath-sized replica of the first chair designed by Hermanos Huertas, in the mid-90s. The family responsible for this company wanted, with this initiative, to pay homage to all the professionals of Araceli from furniture and wood sector; especially to those who collaborated in the strong growth of this company.
In 2006arrived “Guinness World Records” certification what was the the biggest chair of the world. It was the time of wine and roses. No one could foresee that the system would lose its financial foundations and that it would break with the long economic crisis that began in 2008.
In 2009, loses his title. It was taken from him by another raised in Austria, 30 meters high. At that time it was not possible to know what it was start the beginning of the end of what has become a symbol of the city and of an era in Lucena.
