Auction of UT’s Heritage: French team’s intervention sought

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Updated At : 12:21 PM Nov 20, 2022 IST

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Chandigarh, November 19

To stop smuggling of UT’s heritage furniture, a visiting French team was requested to take appropriate action against forthcoming auction of UT’s five heritage items in Paris on November 28.

In a memorandum submitted to Nathalie Chanvallon, Judicial Police Officer, presently in a French delegation in Chandigarh, Ajay Jagga, member, Heritage Items Identification & Inspection Committee, UT, intimated her that UT’s heritage articles designed by Pierre Jeanneret and Le Corbusier are being auctioned in Paris on November 28. The articles include a dining table, an office cane chair, a bench and a pair of low leg chairs, a dressing table and a dirty linen basket.

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