An Extraordinary 'Sellette'
Carlo Bugatti (Mailand 1856 - Château St. Jean, Dorlisheim 1940)
Lot-No. 665
Starting Bid: 8.000 €
Around 1900. Wood, copper, pewter inlays, leather cover, silk tassels. H. 112,5 x 43 x 43 cm. Extravagant stand for palm trees and sculptures, so-called “sellette”, on four copper-coated, slightly slanted column feet, square intermediate board, leather-covered filling boards with “Moorish” arch, copper rosettes, combined with silk tassels with copper plates - Literature: Ill. in: Die Bugattis. (Hrsg. vom Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg). Hamburg, 1983, S. 76, Kat. C 27-28 - Italian artist and designer, studied architecture at the Academia Brera in Milan and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, set up a workshop in Milan in the 1870s, where his first verifiable furniture creations were made, exhibited internationally from 1888, exhibited at the world exhibition in Paris in 1900. Represented at international exhibitions from 1888, 1900 at the world exhibition in Paris. - The highly individual style of his imaginative furniture creations has an oriental flair and is influenced by non-European works, which were in great demand on the European market around 1870. Mus.: Paris, Musée d'Orsay; Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum; Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Lit.: Die Bugattis. (Ed. by Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg). Hamburg, 1983
Carlo Bugatti: An Extraordinary 'Sellette'
Carlo Bugatti (Mailand 1856 - Château St. Jean, Dorlisheim 1940)
An Extraordinary 'Sellette'
Lot-No. 665
Starting Bid: 8.000 €
Around 1900. Wood, copper, pewter inlays, leather cover, silk tassels. H. 112,5 x 43 x 43 cm. Extravagant stand for palm trees and sculptures, so-called “sellette”, on four copper-coated, slightly slanted column feet, square intermediate board, leather-covered filling boards with “Moorish” arch, copper rosettes, combined with silk tassels with copper plates - Literature: Ill. in: Die Bugattis. (Hrsg. vom Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg). Hamburg, 1983, S. 76, Kat. C 27-28 - Italian artist and designer, studied architecture at the Academia Brera in Milan and at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, set up a workshop in Milan in the 1870s, where his first verifiable furniture creations were made, exhibited internationally from 1888, exhibited at the world exhibition in Paris in 1900. Represented at international exhibitions from 1888, 1900 at the world exhibition in Paris. - The highly individual style of his imaginative furniture creations has an oriental flair and is influenced by non-European works, which were in great demand on the European market around 1870. Mus.: Paris, Musée d'Orsay; Berlin, Kunstgewerbemuseum; Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Lit.: Die Bugattis. (Ed. by Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg). Hamburg, 1983
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