CARLO BUGATTI
The parchment backrest is painted on the reverse with bamboo branches and on the front with a marsh scene depicting a frog on a water lily among aquatic plants. The parchment seat is decorated with an inscription accompanied by motifs of birds and flowers.
H 170 - W 38,5 - D 40 cm.
H 66 7/8 - W 15 1/8 - D 15 3/4 in.
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This chair exemplifies the remarkably distinctive language developed by Carlo Bugatti at the turn of the twentieth century. Its slender, deliberately asymmetrical silhouette combines an architectural construction with a rich decorative vocabulary in which wood, pewter, copper, bone, parchment and silk passementerie interact.
Drawing freely on Eastern and Japanese-inspired sources, Bugatti created an object of striking originality, poised between furniture and sculpture. The painted parchment, populated with bamboo, birds, flowers and a frog among aquatic plants, further enhances the precious and imaginative character of the work.
Literature
Philippe Dejean, 'Carlo-Rembrandt-Ettore-Jean Bugatti', Éditions du regard, Paris, 1981, p. 86 for related chair models illustrated.WELCOME TO GALERIE MARCILHAC NEWSLETTER
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