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(1) Carlo Bugatti
(b Milan, 16 Feb 1856; d Molsheim, Alsace, April 1940). Designer, active also in France. His biography, based largely on poorly documented family tradition, remains sketchy. His father Giovanni Luigi Bugatti was a decorative stone-carver. Carlo Bugatti registered at the Accademia di Brera in Milan in 1875, and is said later to have been at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He painted and showed an interest in architecture, producing designs for buildings and elements of interior architecture at several points in his career, although no structures designed by him are recorded as having been executed. In 1880 he returned to Milan, where he lived for approximately 25 years. At this time his sister formed a union with the painter Giovanni Segantini, with whom he had studied at the Brera; for them he designed a small group of furniture (see Garner, Harvey and Conway, p. 18), which, although said to have been made in 1880, probably dates to about 1885 or slightly later. The first clear visual evidence of Bugatti’s activities as a furniture designer and manufacturer is contained in some illustrations related to the display of his work at the Italian Exhibition at Earl’s Court, London, in 1888 (see Garner, Harvey and Conway, p. 22, and 1983 exh. cat., p. 32).
Part of the Bugatti family
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