Casa Pellandini was a Mexican company that manufactured and imported art and luxury items, founded by the Swiss stained glass artist of Italian origin Claudio Pellandini, in 1893, at the 2a. Calle de San Francisco No. 10, currently Madero 33 (Banco Santander Select), four blocks East of the Palacio de Bellas Artes, in Mexico City.
| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Stained glass manufacturer; manufacture, import, and sale of sculptures, lamps, mirrors, and ornamental objects |
| Founded | 1893 |
| Founder | Claudio Pellandini |
| Defunct | N/A |
| Headquarters | 2a. Calle de San Francisco No. 10, Mexico City , Mexico |
Area served | Mexico |
| Products | sculptures, French stained glass, lamps, Venetian mirrors |
Number of employees | ~200 |
| Subsidiaries | Guadalajara, Jalisco |
| Casa Pellandini | |
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| General information | |
| Type | commercial facilities |
| Address | 2a. Calle de San Francisco No. 10 Cuauhtémoc |
| Town or city | Mexico City |
| Country | Mexico |
| Coordinates | 19°26′0.98″N 99°8′15.98″W / 19.4336056°N 99.1377722°W |
| Current tenants | Banco Santander Select |
History
editClaudio Pellandini arrived in Mexico in 1860.[1] Since 1893, in its showroom and store, at 2a. Calle de San Francisco No. 10, the Casa Pellandini used to sell: marble, bronze and terracotta sculptures; French[2] and Mexican stained glass windows, lamps, Venetian mirrors,[2] artistic engravings, marble and alabaster busts, frames, moldings, glass, imported wallpaper; porcelain figures, white and painted ones; prints, facsimiles of watercolors, chromos, oleographs, griffins, planters, materials for artists, supplies for engineers, cases of oil and watercolor colors, and ornamental objects, which ended up in the National Palace, state government palaces, the Municipal Hall of Puebla, the Chapultepec Castle, where President Porfirio Díaz resided up until 25 May 1911, churches, residences, public buildings, etcetera.
Two years later, in 1895, Claudio Pellandini opened the first large art supplies factory in the country. Its workshops, located at Comonfort 48 on the corner of Jaime Nunó, in the Santa Ana neighborhood of Colonia Morelos, Mexico City, occupied an area of 129 167 square feet (12 000 m2), and had machinery imported from Europe and the United States.[3]
It employed approximately 200 people,[4] and had 27 electric machines for beveling, grinding, engraving, and polishing glass. At the end of the 19th century, the French stained glass factory Saint-Gobain named the Casa Pellandini its sole representative and depositary in the Mexican Republic.[5] The high society of the Porfiriato, partially Frenchified, liked to purchase the products that the Swiss Claudio Pellandini imported or manufactured. The Mexican Revolution had no adverse effects on the operations of the prestigious company or on the marketing of luxury goods.[6]
Stained glasses created by master Claudio Pellandini, placed in windows of the facade of the Government Palace of Nuevo León, in Monterrey, showed images of various Mexican national heroes.[7] Seven pieces by Pellandini were vandalized on 5 January 2017, during riots at the Plaza de los Héroes in the capital city of Nuevo León. They were transferred to the Taller Casa Montaña, in Torreón, Coahuila, for restoration.[8]
The Casa Pellandini had a branch in the Downtown of Guadalajara, founded in 1901 on premises numbers 43 and 45 on López Cotilla Street.[5] On Wednesday, 14 September 1927, a fire broke out minor consequences in said branch of that commercial house.[9] By 1946, it had moved to Avenida Corona 129, also in Guadalajara Downtown.[10] In 1971, it was at Prisciliano Sánchez 175, also in Guadalajara Downtown. This branch was managed by Otto B. Kiener.[11] This was its last location in that city.
References
edit- ^ Herrera Moreno, Ethel (May–August 2005). "Reutilización de una fábrica en el Barrio de Santa Ana de la antigua Ciudad de México (Reuse of a factory in the Santa Ana neighborhood of ancient Mexico City)". Boletín de Monumentos Históricos (Historical Monuments Bulletin) (in Spanish). Mexico City: National Institute of Anthropology and History. p. 78. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ a b "Él es el vitralista que decoró los edificios más bellos de México (He is the stained glass artist who decorated the most beautiful buildings in Mexico)" (in Spanish). Saint-Gobain. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ Taller de Claudio Pellandini, Comonfort #48 [Claudio Pellandini Workshop] (video). Mexico City: La Transa Tepito. 28 June 2017. Event occurs at 5:30. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Claudio Pellandini, el vitralista que decoró los más bellos edificios de México (Claudio Pellandini, the stained glass artist who decorated the most beautiful buildings in Mexico)". Mexico City. August 2022. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ a b Alfaro Cuevas, Martha Eugenia (October 2007). "Un acercamiento a la historia del diseño en México: el caso del empresario Claudio Pellandini (An approach to the history of design in Mexico: the case of businessman Claudio Pellandini)" (PDF). Encuadre. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ Villasana, Carlos; Ruth Gómez (2 July 2019). "El suizo que decoró el Castillo y el Palacio Nacional (The Swiss who decorated the Castle and the National Palace)". El Universal (in Spanish). Mexico City. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ García Remus, Vicente (3 July 2011). "El Palacio de Gobierno de Monterrey". El Informador (in Spanish). p. 2-E. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ Campos Garza, Luciano (2 March 2017). "Preparan restauración de vitrales vandalizados del Palacio de Nuevo León (Restoration of vandalized stained glass windows of the Nuevo León Palace is being prepared)". Proceso (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "La Casa Claudio Pellandini Sucesora de México y Sucursal de Guadalajara dan las más expresivas gracias a todas las personas que..." El Informador (in Spanish). Guadalajara. 20 September 1927. p. 5. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Blocks de Vidrio para pared, Americanos, 20 × 20 cm... (American glass blocks for walls, 20 × 20 cm...)". El Informador (in Spanish). Guadalajara. 5 November 1946. p. 5. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ "Vidrios – Cristales – Lunas (Glasses – Crystals – Mirrors)". El Informador (in Spanish). Guadalajara. 20 March 1971. p. 6-C, indexed as "34" at the digital newspaper library. Retrieved 5 July 2024.