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Time of India
2 days ago
- Time of India
UT's heritage furniture to go under the hammer in US
Chandigarh: Chandigarh heritage furniture will go under the hammer in Los Angeles, USA, on July 17. Three furniture items designed by Pierre Jeanneret, including a desk and chair, file rack, and nightstands from the MLA Flats building, have been offered at a price of around Rs 30 lakh. Ajay Jagga, advocate and member of the Heritage Item Protection Cell, UT, in a letter to Dr K Srikar Reddy, Consul General, Indian Embassy, San Francisco, has sought "protection of the city's heritage, in accordance with the rules/protocol, for which an alarm must be raised. We must seek to understand how these items reached the auction house in the USA, where the original documents are, where the bills are, and where the proof of transportation from India to the USA is. The Indian Embassy in SF must at least raise an alarm to save the heritage. The MHA banned the movement of these articles from Chandigarh in 2011, and as such, these all appear to have been smuggled out of India."


Indian Express
3 days ago
- Politics
- Indian Express
At a reserve price of Rs 29.23 lakh, Chandigarh's heritage items to go under the hammer in US
A member of the Chandigarh Administration has raised concern over city's several iconic heritage items, which are designed by Swiss architect Pierre Jeanneret, set to be auctioned by Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) in the US on July 17. The collection includes a desk and chair, a file rack, and a pair of nightstands, with a combined reserve price fixed at around Rs 29.23 lakh. Ajay Jagga, member of the Heritage Items Protection Cell of the Chandigarh Administration, stated that these pieces appear to have been smuggled out of India, despite the Ministry of Home Affairs having banned their movement abroad in 2011. Jagga has appealed to Dr K Srikar Reddy, consul general of India at San Francisco, to intervene through diplomatic channels and alert auction houses to halt the sale. He also called for clarity on how these items reached the auction house, seeking documentation such as bills, transportation or export permits, and custody trail, saying these need to be scrutinised.