Anand Bhatt wrote:

I asked about this last year at Millowners, thought it was just moved
away for some reason (picture attached):
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lfsearch/LotDescription.aspx?intObjectId=4928014

Every working day for the past 20 years, Suresh Kanwar, a civil engineer
in Chandigarh's forestry department, has been sitting on the same
battered wooden chair, an object which he said had "no beauty," even if
it was, "for office use, very comfortable."

Hazarding a guess as to its value, he suggested 400 rupees, or $10,
"perhaps, at a junkyard."

A pair of identical chairs, instantly recognizable to collectors as
Pierre Jeanneret teak "V-chairs," will go on sale at the auction house
Christie's in New York this month with a reserve of $8,000 to $12,000.

A handful of antique dealers from around the world have become regular
visitors to government junkyards in Chandigarh, the experimental
modernist city 250 kilometers, or 155 miles, north of New Delhi,
conceived by the architect Le Corbusier in the 1950s. They buy up
disused stocks of furniture that was specially created by Corbusier's
colleagues to fit out the new city.

cont'd....
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/29/asia/letter.1-231395.php