Last year, The Badminton Cabinet became the most expensive piece of furniture sold at an auction.
A whooping $36 million dollars (19 million euros)
“Badminton Cabinet Sells for $36 million (£19 million)
The Most Expensive Piece of Furniture Ever Sold at Auction … Again!London, 9 December – The Badminton Cabinet sold at Christie’s for £19,045,250/$36,662,106/€27,463,250 breaking its own record price of £8.5 million established at Christie’s on July 5, 1990, and becoming the most expensive non-pictorial work of art ever sold at auction. It was purchased in the room by Dr. Johan Kraeftner, Director of the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna on behalf of Prinz Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein for the museum. “
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