Designer,
active also in France. His biography, based largely
on poorly documented family tradition, remains
sketchy. His father Giovanni Luigi Bugatti was a
decorative stone-carver. Carlo Bugatti registered at
the Accademia di Brera in Milan in 1875, and is said
later to have been at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in
Paris. He painted and showed an interest in
architecture, producing designs for buildings and
elements of interior architecture at several points
in his career, although no structures designed by
him are recorded as having been executed. In 1880 he
returned to Milan, where he lived for approximately
25 years. At this time his sister formed a union
with the painter Giovanni Segantini, with whom he
had studied at the Brera; for them he designed a
small group of furniture. In 1888 there is the first
clear visual evidence of Bugatti's activities as a
furniture designer and manufacturer.
Works:
Apparel