Cabinet
cabinetmaker Carlo Bugatti (Italian, 1856–1940)
c. 1895
- Medium
- wood with metal inlays and painted parchment, glass doors and mirror
- Classification
- Furniture and woodwork
- Dimensions
- Overall: 224.5 x 141 x 55.3 cm (88 3/8 x 55 1/2 x 21 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- France, late 19th Century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- Gift of Barry Friedman and Patricia Pastor, New York
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
In both form and decoration this cabinet typifies the work of Carlo Bugatti. Asymmetrical, with a tower-like element at one side, there are Islamic-inspired ornaments throughout its design, notably the onion-shaped arches in the upper half of the cabinet. Japanese influence is also evident in the white metal inlays and in the sepia-painted parchment panels. The cabinet displays an extensive vocabulary of other decorative devices, including the partial ebonized frame, the turned wooden ornaments, metal reliefs, mirrored and green glass, and silk tassels. Despite their diversity, Bugatti organized all these elements into a coherent design.
