Live Auction 2608Important 20th Century Decorative Art & Design
CARLO BUGATTI (1856-1940)
Lot 46

CARLO BUGATTI (1856-1940)

A RARE DESK AND CHAIR, CIRCA 1902

Closed14 December 2012

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CARLO BUGATTI (1856-1940)
A RARE DESK AND CHAIR, CIRCA 1902
the chair with an adjustable back, painted vellum, tooled copper, brass and wood
desk: 36¾ in. (93.5 cm.) high, 27¼ in. (69 cm.) wide, 22 in. (56 cm.) deep; chair: 38¼ in. (97 cm.) high
chair signed Bugatti (2)

Barry Friedman Ltd., New York;
Sotheby's, New York, 19 November 1992, lot 22.

Specialist note

cf. P. Dejean, Bugatti, New York, 1982, p. 76, possibly this example.

A similar model was exhibited in the Exposition Internationale, Turin, 1902.