A pair of arm chairs designed by French architect Le Corbusier and his associate, Pierre Jeanneret, for High Court and Assembly, Chandigarh, went for a whopping Rs 69.58 lakh during an auction of Chandigarh heritage furniture in USA.

A sofa went for Rs 34.59 lakh, while an executive desk designed for administrative buildings Chandigarh went for Rs 7.39 lakh. The three items together were auctioned for Rs 1.12 crore, which is the highest amount earned from auctioning Chandigarh heritage furniture since 2009.

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Over one and a half years, as many as 40 heritage furniture items from Chandigarh have been auctioned at various auction houses abroad for a whopping amount of Rs 2.14 crore till now. The UT Administration has remained a mute spectator till now.