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.
History
Claudio 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.