Carlo Bugatti - Artist Info

About Carlo Bugatti

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    Carlo Bugatti
    Italian designer, furniture maker, and decorator

    Carlo Bugatti (born February 2, 1856, Milan, Italy–died April 1940, Molsheim, France) was an Italian decorator, designer, and manufacturer of Art Nouveau furniture, jewelry, and musical instruments. His distinctive aesthetic combined the organic and the exotic in novel ways that resulted in a body of work unique among the art of his contemporaries.

    Carlo Bugatti was the son of sculptor, interior designer, and architect Giovanni Luigi Bugatti. He had early training at the prestigious Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan before relocating to Paris in 1875 and then continued his studies at the internationally renowned Académie des Beaux-Arts.

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