PROJECT

Ornamental Avant-Garde

Carlo Bugatti transformed furniture into art through a bold fusion of exotic materials, sculptural forms, and avant-garde craftsmanship. Rare and richly decorative, these works remain icons of fin-de-siècle design.

Ornamental Avant-Garde

Carlo Bugatti Defying the Conventions of Decorative Arts

Few designers of the fin de siècle developed a vision as distinctive and unconventional as Carlo Bugatti. Moving from the exotic and symbolic language of his early works to the almost proto-modernist experimentation of the first decade of the 1900s, the selection reveals a singular aesthetic shaped by eclectic references, artisanal virtuosity, and an uncompromising devotion to material richness.

Comprising a rare mirror, table, and chair, the ensemble brings together Bugatti’s unmistakable lexicon of ebonized wood, painted parchment, repoussé copper, pewter, mother-of-pearl, and silk. Precious yet radical in spirit, these intensely crafted works remain deeply coveted today for their rarity, poetic eccentricity, and enduring decorative power.