Frank Gehry’s Seven-Ton Glass Desk Sells for $243,200, Setting Auction Record for His Design Work

A monumental desk designed by the Pritzker Prize–winning architect Frank Gehry sold for $243,200 at Freeman’s in Chicago last week, according to Artnet News. The figure is more than ten times its $20,000 high estimate and sets a new auction record for one of Gehry’s design objects. Known as Icehenge, the sprawling 16-piece work was created in 2012 for the lobby of Chicago’s landmark Inland Steel Building, where Gehry oversaw a renovation after acquiring a s