Carlo Bugatti
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Carlo Bugatti (Born February 16, 1856 in Milan, Italy – died April 1940 in Molsheim, France) was a notable decorator, architect (indeed he never applied his work into buildings), designer and manufacturer of Art Nouveau furniture, models of jewelry, musical instruments.
Biography
Son of Giovanni Luigi Bugatti, a specialist on internal decorations, Carlo studied at the Brera Academy and, from 1875, studied at the Académie des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1880 started his manufacture of furniture in Milan and later in France. His first international success is dated 1888.
He triumphed at the exhibition of decorative art in Turin in 1902 and returned to Paris in 1904.
Father of Rembrandt Bugatti the sculptor and Ettore Bugatti the car manufacturer, he moved in 1910 to Pierrefonds where set up an atelier. From 1914 to 1918 he was nominated mayor of the village, and the outspoken anti-German industrialist Adolphe Clément-Bayard, who lived at the Domaine du Bois d'Aucourt, entrusted it's upkeep to him. From then on, he devoted himself entirely to painting.
After the suicide of his son Rembrandt in 1916, Bugatti, then 60, diminished activity but his influence remain strong.
In 1935, at the age of 79, he retired to his son Ettore and Ettore's family in Alsace. He settled in a flat, north of Château Saint-Jean, Dorlisheim, with his wife Teresa (died shortly after that year), right at the domain of promotion of Bugatti property of his son Ettore.
He spent his last months at his apartment, the Bugatti factory in Molsheim, where he frequented the workmen and the house of 'the Hardtmühle', living with Ettore and his family.
In April 1940, he died at the hospital in Molsheim. He is buried in the Bugatti family cemetery at Dorlisheim.
