Carlo Bugatti Parchment Wood And Copper Side Table

Carlo Bugatti (1856–1940) was an Italian architect, decorator, designer, and furniture maker, born on February 2, 1856, in Milan. Born into a family of artists, he first attended the Brera Academy in Milan and then moved to Paris to study at the École des Beaux-Arts. Initially interested in architecture, he quickly turned to furniture design, characterized by an exotic and innovative style, unparalleled in European interior design at the time. His work is distinguished by the use of parchment, Japanese motifs, and an aesthetic inspired by the Orient, although he never traveled outside Europe. He won a silver medal at the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris and triumphed in Turin in 1902, where he notably presented a room called “Escargot,” reproducing the different parts of the shell of this gastropod. Carlo Bugatti is also the father of two famous artists: animal sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti and automobile manufacturer Ettore Bugatti. He moved to France in 1910, to Pierrefonds, where he opened a workshop and even became mayor of the village during the First World War. He spent his last years near the Bugatti factory in Molsheim, Alsace, where he died on March 31, 1940.