Carlo Bugatti (Milan, 1856 – Molsheim, 1940) was an Italian designer and cabinet-maker whose furniture turns the richness of materials and ornamental density into ceremonial presences: inlaid wood, parchment, brass, zinc, pewter and silk tassels carry the object from functional body to symbolic body.
In 2026 ERA Gallery presented a chair by Carlo Bugatti, datable to between 1898 and 1902, in the exhibition Il corpo dell’anima, with Martín Soto Climent and Herta Ottolenghi Wedekind.