Eileen Gray's "Dragons" armchair, circa 1917, sold for $28 million on Day 2 of Christie's Yves Saint Laurent private collection auction at the Grand Palais, Paris.This photo of the chair and its description are from Christie's website:
In the form of unfurling petals, upholtsered in brown leather, the frame in sculpted wood, lacquered brownish orange and silver and modelled as the serpentine, intertwined bodies of two dragons, their eyes in black lacquer on a white cloud, their bodies decorated in low relief with stylised clouds.
A pretty well perfect description for a $28 million armchair.
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