Lights designed by Le Corbusier withdrawn from Paris auction at last minute

More than 100 light sconces designed by the French-Swiss architect Le Corbusier (Charles-douard Jeanneret-Gris) were withdrawn from a sale at the Paris-based auction house Artcurial last week (30 May), an hour before they were due to go under the hammer. The sconces came from the Unit dhabitation de Firminy (housing unit) in the Loire valley, the second largest site designed by Le Corbusier after the Complexe du Capitole in Chandigarh, India. Last year, the Firminy complex was designated b