Prof. Francesco Carelli

Carlo Zen (1851 – 1918) one of the most important furniture makers in Europe.

 

 

His furnishings were exhibited at various national and international exhibitions, but it was precisely at the Turin exhibition in 1898 that some imaginative furniture attributable to the floral style still in embryo was proposed. Thus, begins quietly the adventure of freedom on the Zen Company which will lead it, within four years, to the rapidly driving modernist update of a vast sector of its production.

From 1898 he also began a public confrontation with the other famous Liberty cabinet makers, Carlo Bugatti and Eugenio Quarti, who were also present both at the exhibitions in Turin in 1898 and 1902 and at the one in Paris in 1900.