‘Rock star’ chair smashes record

Furniture is art.
Sometimes the art is bad and occasionally it takes your breath away. At the Yves Saint Laurent art collection auction, an art deco armchair by Irish designer Eileen Gray fetched $43.2 million dollars—a record for a Gray design, and the second largest sum ever paid for furniture.
The one-off rounded brown leather piece called “the Dragon’s Armchair” features arms that morph into sculpted dragon’s heads. According to several written reports, the record holder was an 18th century "Badmington cabinet" which sold for $36.6 million in December 2004.
I’m not sure why anyone would want a "Badmington cabinet,” but that chair ROCKS my world!
All the bidding debauchery went down Feb. 23 – 25 in Paris at Christie’s.