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Le Corbusier price doubles
A signed concrete bench designed by Le Corbusier has sold for €35,100, nearly double its estimated value in an auction in Paris.
The lit bench was part of street furniture designed in the mid-1960s by Le Corbusier for Firminy, Loire, where the mayor wanted fresh flair to revive the industrial town.
This was the first time his signed works were up for auction and there was feverish interest in the Artcurial saleroom as a European buyer won the bench. A concrete lamp post was also sold to a US buyer for €23,400.
The bench was left over from the project and the electrical contractor had it in his garden ever since.