Carlo Zen
( Verona 1851 - Lanzo D’Intelvi
1918)
His furniture is exhibited in
several national, regional and international shows. As a matter
of fact, it was at the exhibition in Turin, in 1898 where are
exhibited some fancy and imaginative pieces of furniture, that
are similar to the flowery stile, still in embryo at that
moment. Thus, the adventure of the Liberty Style of the Firm
Zen started. An adventure that will lead them in only four years
to the fast and driving updating of a large part of their
production, towards modernism.
Since 1898 he begins also a
public confrontation with the other famous Liberty cabinet
makers, such as Carlo Bugatti and Eugenio Quarti, who were
present, too, at the exhibitions of Turin of 1898 and 1902 and
of Paris in 1900.
Some of his
works.
Translation by
Irene de Angelis-Curtis