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TREKU
Qui sommes-nous ?
Muebles Treku est née d’un atelier créé en 1947 à Zarautz, une jolie ville côtière à forte tradition dans le domaine de l’ébénisterie et de la menuiserie. L’entreprise portait à l’origine le nom de son fondateur, Jesús Aldabaldetrecu, un ébéniste à l’esprit entreprenant. En quelque temps, l’atelier acquiert une renommée dans la région en fabriquant des chambres classiques de haute qualité. L’entreprise connaît alors une phase d’industrialisation qui sera achevée par la deuxième génération de la famille.
Traditionnel et contemporain
La marque Treku est un raccourci du nom de famille purement basque Aldabaldetreku et c’est aujourd’hui la troisième génération de cette famille qui se charge de diriger l’entreprise, héritant ainsi de la meilleure des traditions : se consacrer à une profession passionnante.
Pendant toutes ces années – plus d’un demi-siècle d’histoire – plusieurs expériences ont été vécues, certaines difficiles, comme les différentes crises économiques par lesquelles sont passées l’entreprise, ou bien les inondations dévastatrices des années 1953 et 1983. Mais surtout, nous nous souvenons des bonnes expériences, des liens d’amitié au sein et en dehors de l’entreprise, de la reconnaissance de nombreux clients fidèles et de l’espoir d’ouvrir de nouveaux marchés…
Grâce à l’expérience des premières générations, Treku a su intégrer dans ses créations une touche contemporaine qui, combinée à la tradition, amènent des détails qui nous transportent vers d’autres époques. Treku continue actuellement à élargir ses connaissances grâce au contact avec d’autres pays, d’autres continents et cultures, desquels nous apprenons chaque jour.
Nos valeurs
In 1947, a local from Zarautz, a small coastal town in the Basque Country, opened his own carpentry workshop. His name was Jesús Aldabaldetrecu, he was 36 years old and had been working in the field since he was a boy. Jesús was just another link to a woodworking tradition which dated back more than five hundred years in this neck of the woods in the province of Gipuzkoa. While most of the coastal town of the XVI century were busy fishing at sea, the people of Zarautz were becoming specialists in the construction of small fishing boats and traineras or rowing boats - speedy long boats which were fundamental in whale hunting. The town achieved worldwide fame for its craftsmanship. The profound economic transformations occurring in Europe in the mid-XIX century brought with them a decline in traditional riverside shipyards.
Crisis loomed on the horizon. A door which had been open for centuries started to close, but various windows were simultaneously flung open. One of these windows was to tourism: at the same time as the industrial revolution, sea and beach tourism became popular on a section of the Cantabrian Sea. Zarautz, with its stretch of beach over 2 kilometers long, was one of the places that Royalty and the bourgeoisie of the time chose to partake in the famous activity known as baños de ola - jumping through the waves while holding onto a rope. The shipyards, where boats were built for centuries, became home to the creation of luxury furniture. Almost 70 years after being founded, the company Muebles Treku remains in the hands of Jesús Aldabaldetrecu’s descendants. Times and designs may have changed, but the handmade resilience and tradition still remain.
When dawn breaks in Zarautz, the rays of the sun take a few more minutes more to fall on the Olaa neighbourhood. The light uses this time to break through the hills among which this entirely rural spot is nestled, just two kilometers from one of the Basque Country’s best-known beaches. Olaa bears no resemblance to touristy Zarautz. It is covered in green pastures still grazed by livestock and is scantly inhabited by a dozen evenly-scattered homesteads, the characteristic Basque farm. A small freshwater stream called Olaa, the very same that gives the place its name, forms its backbone as it crosses the neighbourhood, allowing the road to run by its side.
This is home to Muebles Treku’s factory, a building which awakens at the same time each day when an operator turns on the furnace, feeding it with discarded wood from furniture construction, and starts up all the machinery. An hour later, when the rest of the workers arrive, the production cycle is already warmed up and ready to go so they can get started on their work.
