Carlo BUGATTI (1856 - 1940) - Lot 120

Lot 120
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Carlo BUGATTI (1856 - 1940) - Lot 120
Carlo BUGATTI (1856 - 1940) Lady's desk, circa 1902, in natural parchment with polychrome decoration enhanced with gilding, stamped copper and bronze opening in the waist with a slightly curved central drawer and two upper lateral boxes. Lateral legs in X shape with an important circular lower part and a central tubular spacer. Height 93,5 cm - Length 70 cm - Depth 54,5 cm Exhibition: a similar model of desk was presented at the International Exhibition in Turin in 1902. Bibliography: Fabbrica italiana mobili artistici - A. De Vecchi e C. (gia C. Bugatti & C.), commercial catalog, Milan, circa 1902-1905, variant of our desk reproduced under no. 703 (n.p.) ; Philippe Dejean, Carlo-Rembrandt-Ettore-JeanBugatti, Éditions du Regard, Paris, 1981, variant of our desk reproduced on pp. 76-77; Collective, Bugatti, les meubles - Bugatti, les autos - Bugatti, les autos, Éditions de la Différence & Galerie Beaubourg, Paris, 1995, variant of our desk reproduced on p. 99 ; Marie-Madeleine Massé, Carlo Bugatti at the Musée d'Orsay - Illustrated summary catalog of the archives and collections, Musée d'Orsay & RMN, Paris, 2001, variant of our desk referenced under no. 8.14 and reproduced on p. 92.
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