This Yves Saint Laurent chair stunned the auction world when it sold for $28.3 MILLION US DOLLARS - more than seven times its pre-sale estimate of $3.8 mill USD. The piece, designed by Eileen Gray, an Irish architect and furniture designer, and dubbed 'The Dragons', sat in Yves' sitting room.
It was sold by Christie's Auction House in Paris on Tuesday. The chair was made in 1917 or around there-in by Eileen Gray, for her first commission as an interior decorator.
Christie's just wrapped up their three day auction of the late Yves Saint Laurent's 733 piece collection.
I am finally getting around to decorating our bedroom. Unfortunately (or, fortunately?) this chair is not in my budget.
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