Hi there! we are Miguel Acha y Anna Pujol, 🤗 two enthisiasts of design, nature, wood, create harmonic spaces and work with our own hands.
¡We are here to save La fustopia!
Due to an administrative sanction caused by the malpractice of a manager, we are about to close the doors of our workshop: ''La Fustopia´´. We want to explain to you a little better what has happened and our projects; and if there is anything you see that connects with you, you believe in us or/and you want to help us, we will greatly appreciate any donation and support.
Being an entrepreneur is not easy, there are many factors that cause spirit and motivation to wither at any time, and for us this situation is turning us off inside and we explain why.
¿What has caused the administratice sanction?
It all started with a call from a trusted client, who informed us that an overdue invoice could not be settled, because we had a tax lien, it must have been a mistake because we had just moved from Poblenou to Santa María de Palautordera: a year of investment in which more losses than benefits were reported.
We immediately sought explanations with the agency that handled everything for us, but everything was shady, alleging for errors in the system that could have caused this situation, they left us waiting for a response from the administration for months, and after many attempts to communication; calls, whatsapp messages, audios, we had not received a reason for this sanction.
Given this insecurity that this agency generated in us, we decided to look for another team of managers to be able to find out what had happened, who have been able to locate the reason for this situation and are in charge of redirecting this entire error, they have also written to us * a detailed report of what happened:*
``Everything starts on 10/10/2022 with a notification from the 2021 VAT treasury where they request the books to verify the information that has been presented in the VAT models presented each quarter and that the agency did not respond.
The tax agency request again on 10/27/2022 and the agency does not answer anything either.
Third attempt by the Tax Agency on 10/12/2022 and there is no answer either.
As nothing is done, the Tax Agency makes a settlement proposal on 15/01/2023, it is a proposal that can be answered, but they don't do it either.
What does this mean? Since this settlement proposal is not answered either, a letter arrives where they are required to pay all the VAT incurred during the 2021 financial year because no book or invoice was provided.
The amount of this input VAT is €23,260.35, where the 20% surcharge must be added, which is exactly €4,652.07 which, due to the poor management of the old agency, is 4niture SL (our company) who has to assume both the payment of input VAT, such as the surcharge.
On 15/01/2023 a penalty was imposed for not attending to any VAT notification and this penalty is €1,500.00.
During all this time, the company 4niture SL has paid the bill for the management services every month until 31/05/2023. We are requesting the accounting for the 2022 financial year in order to be able to carry out the accounting for the 2023 financial year correctly and they have refused to provide this information.´´
This is the situation from which we want to move forward, the biggest bump that our company has ever gone through. It is very embarrassing for us to make this call, asking everyone for help can be difficult, but it also fills us with hope and desire to have received a lot of good energy from those of us who have explained the situation to them in person, that is why we want to give back for this Help with what we like most: working with wood.
About rewards
Unique items and pieces: Many of the pieces we offer were made in previous years from likenwood and we do not currently offer them, so they are unique pieces.
Furniture: We have made a selection of the most emblematic furniture within our projects to offer in this campaign.
Vouchers: Apart from the pieces we offer, we can make custom solid wood pieces, such as beds, tables or benches. You can contribute to the project with one or more vouchers that we will turn into your custom furniture.
Experiences: We created a series of workshops and events so you can learn at La fustopia.
Contributions without reward: We are open to receiving with great gratitude any altruistic contribution to support La fustopia.
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For those who don't know us!**
What la fustopia is?
La fustopia is more than our workshop, it is our co-creation space, where creativity flows, a temple of connection with wood, of growth, here we do ** designs** that may seem utopian to others but we love to bring them to reality. It is the umbrella that has welcomed our brands, a space that has changed location and has also changed its name over the years, just as we have also been changing.
Do you want to know a little more about the history of our path?
Liken
In 2017 we took a location in the middle of Poblenou (Barcelona) where we created our first sustainable furniture brand. Liken Wood of own design and manufacture, with some principles that characterized it:
🌱 Designed by us.
🌱 proximity wood
🌱All manufacturing processes carried out by us in our workshop
🌱natural Finishings
🌱Packaging and shipping managed by us and everything sustainable.
🌱 0 waste
this gave a special character to the brand. From all the furniture we made there was waste, from this waste we designed smaller pieces (the ones we now put on sale) such as spoons, candles, bookmarks, reading aids... and from the waste of These pieces were used by restaurants such as pizzerias.
Leafy mom
A year after the birth of our first daughter in 2021, a project for children and families emerged, Leafy mom, with the premise of create evolutionary furniture, made with quality wood and with the particularity of being assembly and disassembly without screws, only with wood.
Created from the same philosophy as Liken, but with an eye towards the little ones in the house. evolutionary and sustainable furniture. We immediately felt the need for our daughter to get on and be able to help in the kitchen, so the Cyathea convertible learning tower came out.
It was very well received, which continues to this day. We studied the market in depth to see what there was and what was needed and we designed the tower for our little girl. It was after posting it on social networks that people began to be interested and ask for it. It was even exhibited in the [design museum]
Knock on wood.
Folden Desk
After the paradigm shift that COVID represented in the work reality of many people, we created the FOLDEN folding desk as a work tool for small spaces. It is a wall-mounted folding desk that combines a large work surface, storage and a many details focused on the organization of the workspace, with a unique design/quality on the market and made entirely of birch plywood.
El club de la fusta
As part of the commitment we have to promote crafts, shows up el club de la fusta, a weekly space where we meet craft enthusiasts to create personal projects.
Unlike other carpentry courses, el clup de la fusta is a creation space based on the needs of each one, each member brings a personal project and we develop it with the help of Miguel and using the machinery and the Fustopia space, we make them a reality.
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etorreco7
Molta sort!
SoWhat
ánimo, vuestro proyecto es hermoso
elecodsam
molta força, valents!
montserrat marti
Gràcies per la vostra bona feina i molta sort en aquesta nova etapa
Oriol Sanchez
Espero que arribeu, vaig tenir oportunitat de veure el que feieu a Avià, i crec que son projectes amb molts valors
Ester Angelats
Ànims familia! Un projecte preciós! Endavant!
Carolina Salazar de Acha
Deseando de todo corazón que lleguen a la meta! Los amo
La fustopia
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Famílies boniques!!, nose com agrair individualment cada comentari (he trastejat i no me n'he sortit)
però no volia deixar d'agrair tots els vostres desitjos i amor que ens feu arribar! GRÀCIES DE TOT COR per estar aquí amb nosaltres, per ajudar-nos i donar-nos suport. Gràcies per la vostra ajuda i per creure amb nosaltres!, estem punt d'aconseguir-ho!!!
Marina
🧡🧡 es poc el que puc aportar per tot el que m’agradaria. Espero que el meu granet de sorra us ajudi.
Bernat Mercader
Ànims! <3