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Carlo Bugatti (Italian, 1856-1940) A highly important, late 19th - early 20th Century Folding Chair by Carlo Bugatti, Carved & parcel ebonized walnut-wood with pewter inlay, 46" X 12.5" X 33.5". The high-back with hollowed carving of the Ace of Clubs (Clove leaf), the back, the seat and the front leg are inlaid with pewter in floral and geometrical motif. (References: "Bugatti, Paris, La difference-Galerie Beaubourg, 1995,P. 97" . "Sotheby's Paris, July18th 2004". Biography: Carlo Bugatti (1856-1940) "A decorator and an architect, creator and manufacturer of furniture, jewelery, musical instruments and even of a racing bicycle, Carlo Bugatti was particularly inventive and original. He made his debut in Milan around 1880, became successful outside Italy for the first time in 1888, and triumphed at the Turin decorative art exhibition in 1902. He settled in Paris in 1904, before retiring to Pierrefonds in 1910" "Carlo Bugatti's furniture combines the picturesque asymmetry of Art Nouveau with the exoticism of Moorish and Japanese influences. There is nothing accurately derivative in Bugatti's work, however; rather, it is pure fantasy, drawing inspiration from the Orientalist art movement of the late nineteenth century, a fact underscored by the name of his business in Milan: C. Bugatti & C., Fabbrica Mobili Artistici Fantasia. SOLD |
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