O gesto do artesão na produção da mobília escolar: a fábrica de móveis de Pedro Rispoli na primeira década do século XX

Abstract

The objective of this article is to investigate the production experiences present in the creation of school furniture in Paraná. Thus, the study begins with the work of Pedro Rispoli, an Italian immigrant who made furniture for public education in Paraná from 1904 onwards, and ends in 1909, a period in which his steam-powered factory – Mobiliário Artístico – gained national notoriety in the commercial and artistic scene. The repertoire of sources that make up this study is composed of iconographic documents; local and national newspapers; reports from government agents; government correspondence and minutes of the Museu Maçônico Paranaense. As theoretical contributions, we use Ulpiano T. Bezerra de Meneses (1994) to understand artifacts as vectors of relations, Inés Dussel (2019) to understand artifacts as active objects and providers of experiences in the social fabric, Richard Sennett (2020) on the notion of experience and craftsman in the process of making things, and Michel de Certeau (2014) to understand the historical operation and the “Arts of Making”.