95Why do these chairs cost £26,000?
Pier Jeanneret’s Chandigarh furniture was slowly
being lost to the scrap heap. Today, it’s coveted by
collectors around the globe
By Stephen Wallis
Let: architects Pierre
Jeanneret (let) and his
cousin Le Corbusier at the
dedication of Chandigarh,
India, 1955; the pair of
Jeanneret chairs that sold
for £26,367 at Bonhams,
New York, in December
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