28/06/2025
Design Stories: A Carlo Bugatti Chair.
While studying interior design in London, I visited an exhibition on the Bugatti family, not just the carmakers Ettore Bugatti and his son Jean, but also Carlo Bugatti, whose furniture was unlike anything I’d seen. Ornate, eccentric, layered with detail.
Years later in Brussels, I wandered into the gallery of Philippe Denise, a respected dealer of modernist design. We started talking, and I mentioned my curiosity about Bugatti’s work and how unique it was.
To my surprise, he told me he had a single Bugatti dining chair, once part of Carlo’s furnishings for his sculptor son Rembrandt’s home in Antwerp.
It’s one of the pieces I’m happy to own, a small token of furniture design history.