Exceedingly RARE CARLO BUGATTI Circa 1900 2 Seater... Lot n° 2

ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST / Item is located in our Prague Gallery / Delivery can be arranged within Europe / An exceedingly RARE Carlo Bugatti 2 Seater Couch which is the matching 2 Seater to an identical Model Chair which was part of the CHRISTIES Allan Stone Collection - Lot 654 - On November 12th 2007 - which had a presale estimate of $20,000 - $30,000 and the price realized was $55,000 plus buyers premium - Measures 120cm wide - 126cm tall and 52cm in depth ... Ships from our Prague Showroom - please enquire the actual cost of delivery prior to placing a bid ... Ebonised walnut wood; pewter, bone, mother-of-pearl and brass inlays; embossed and pierced copper foil; vellum; silk trimming. Carlo Bugatti Atelier, 1900 ca. Literature: Literature: Elisabetta Barbolini Ferrari, Augusto Bulgarelli Tra Antiquariato, passato prossimo e modernariato, Ed. Banca Popolare del Lazio 2010, p. 139 (sedie con caratteristiche simili); P.Dejan, Carlo, Rembrant, Ettore, Jean Bugatti, Editions du Regard, Parigi, 1981, (ed. italiana, Automobilia, 1982). Vintage condition / PLEASE SEE ALL PHOTIS / DELIVERY IS POSSIBLE TO ARRANGE WITHIN EUROPE - The closeup photos uploaded were just closeups and NOT necessarily denoting restorations or imperfections just closeups showing intricate detailing ... I just wanted to point that based upon such a realistic and reasonable opening price - IF it is such the desire of the potential buyer to restore the piece based upon their personal needs and taste it would behove the buyer to do so as they would be the owner of such a RARE and substantial iconic example designed by CARLO BUGATTI ... Below is a biography CARLO BUGATTI Son of Giovanni Luigi Bugatti, a specialist in interior decoration, Carlo Bugatti was born 2 February 1856[1] in Milan, in what was until 1859 the kingdom of Lombardy. Bugatti studied firstly at the Brera Academy in Milan, and subsequently, from 1875, at the Académie des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1880 he started to manufacture furniture in Milan, later transferring to France. From 1888 he began to be successful beyond Italy. Nevertheless, until 1904 he maintained a Milan workshop in the city's Via Castelfiardo 6.[2] Bugatti triumphed at the exhibition of decorative art in Turin in 1902 and returned to Paris in 1904. He was also, like his father, trained as an architect, but there is no evidence that any of his architectural designs were ever executed.[3] Father of sculptor Rembrandt Bugatti and automobile manufacturer Ettore Bugatti, he moved in 1910 to Pierrefonds where he established 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 its upkeep to him. From then on, he devoted himself entirely to painting. After the suicide of his son Rembrandt in 1916, Bugatti, then 60, produced less, but he remained influential. In 1935, at the age of 79, he retired near his son Ettore's family in Alsace. He settled in a flat north of Château Saint-Jean, Dorlisheim, with his wife Teresa (who died shortly afterwards), at the domain of promotion of Bugatti property of his son Ettore. Carlo Bugatti spent his last months at his apartment at 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,[4] he died at the hospital in Molsheim. He is buried in the Bugatti family cemetery at Dorlisheim. The Bugatti section of Molsheim's municipal Musée de la Chartreuse displays works and items in his remembrance....Hand delivery can be arranged WITHIN the European Union - PLEASE ask ALL questions prior to placing your bids as all bids are binding and contractual ...