The most expensive furniture ever sold is The Badminton Chest which went for $36.7M in 2004 at Christie’s Auction in London.
- The Badminton Chest – $36.7 MILLION
- The Dragon’s Chair – $27.8 MILLION
- Florentine Pietra Dura, Ebony and Ormolu Cabinet – $23.18 MILLION
- Antique Secretary Desk – $11.4 MILLION
- Huanghuali Horseshoe-Back Armchairs – $9.6 MILLION
- Huanghuali Plank-Top Pedestal Table – $9 MILLION
- The Fisher-Fox Family Chippendale Carved Mahogany Tea Table – $6.7 MILLION
- Troupeau D’elephants Dans Les Arbres’ Table – $6.6 MILLION
- Baldacchino Supreme Bed – $6.3 MILLION
- A Louis Xiv Ormolu-Mounted Ebony Marquetry Center Table – $5.7 MILLION
A home is never complete without furniture – however beautiful. Good quality furniture can cost a lot and if you’ve ever wondered how expensive a piece of furniture could get, here’s a list we put together of the most expensive furniture ever sold in the world.
The Badminton Chest – $36.7M
Period: 1726
Country: England
Sold: December 9, 2004
This masterpiece was created by thirty designers who took 6 years to finish the piece. It was made in Florence and is believed to have belonged to the third Duke of Beaufort.
Its designs include gilded statues, fleur-de-lis, coats of arms, and other designs on its decorous drawers.
Currently, the cabinet can be found at the Liechtenstein Museum.
The Dragon’s Chair – $27.8M
Period: 1917 – 1919
Country: France
Sold: February 24, 2009
The Dragon’s Chair is the most expensive chair ever sold. The furniture has been handcrafted from leather and carved wood with arms shaped like the tails of dragons.
The proud owner of this timeless chair was Yves St Laurent and was sold at Christie’s Auction in 2009.
Florentine Pietra Dura, Ebony and Ormolu Cabinet – $23.18M
Period: 1720 – 1732
Country: Italy
Sold: December 8, 2004
The cabinet was designed sometime in the 1720s or early 1730s at the Grand Ducal Workshops. They include figures of the four seasons made from bronze by Girolamo Ticciati.
The ten drawers are lined with cedar, each mounted with ormolu and accented with amethyst quartz. The semi-precious stones are a major selling point of this cabinet, which is covered in sculpted female masks, fruit, designs of leaves, a studded clock face, and more.
Antique Secretary Desk – $11.4M
Period: 1760s
Country: USA
Sold: June 1989
This Goddard and Townsend desk was made during the 1760s. Only nine of this antique secretary desk were ever made, making it a rare and expensive piece of furniture.
It is part of a series of furniture licensed by two New England families and was sold in 1989 at Christie’s Auction for $11.4M making it the most expensive American piece of furniture ever sold.
Huanghuali Horseshoe-Back Armchairs – $9.6M
Period: 1600s
Country: China
Sold: March 16, 2015
Formerly owned by Quan Yi in the 17th Century Ming Dynasty in China.
The chairs have an elegant, crested design with hook handles, thin aprons, and soft mat seats.
Sold at Christie’s Auction in 2015 which had a value of $900,000 but was bought ten times the amount because of the allure of the period it was made in as well as the pristine construction.
Huanghuali Plank-Top Pedestal Table – $9M
Period: 1600s – 1700s
Country: China
Sold: March 21, 2013
The Huanghuali Plank-Top Pedestal Table is a huge, single-plank table with a beaded edge. Its thick pedestals and trestle legs are separated by single stretchers.
It was sold on March 21, 2013, from the collection of Jonathan and Jessika Auerbach and was exhibited in the Denver Art Museum before being sold.
The Fisher-Fox Family Chippendale Carved Mahogany Tea Table – $6.7M
Period: 1760
Country: USA
Sold: October 2, 2007
The Fisher-Fox Family Chippendale Carved Mahogany Tea Table was made in Philadelphia around 1760. The furniture maker known as the “Garvan carver” is considered the most likely maker of this gorgeous table.
It still has its original casters, which dramatically increased its value. It was owned by the Wharton Fisher family before being sold at the collection known as “Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Prints Including American Folk Art from the Atwater Kent Museum of Philadelphia.”
Troupeau D’elephants Dans Les Arbres’ Table – $6.6 MILLION
Period: 2001
Country: France
Sold: June 9, 2021
The Troupeau D’Elephants Dans Les Arbres’ Table was made in 2001, making it among the most recent piece of luxury furniture sold at these prices. It passed across a Christie’s auction block on June 9, 2021, and took in $6.6 million despite a high-end value estimate of only $1.5 million.
The table was designed by Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his team. The table is famous for its free-standing elephant sculptures, which gild its eight-sided bronze structure.
Baldacchino Supreme Bed – $6.3 MILLION
Period: 2021
Country: Italy
Sold: 2021
The Baldacchino Supreme Bed was designed by the furniture makers at Nocera Superiore in Italy and Stuart Hughes, the British designer famous for high-end pieces.
This bed is made from chestnut wood with curving ash wood accents and a canopy edged with cherry wood. The hand-made bed also includes 107 kg of solid 24k gold sculpted into decorative gold leaf filigree. Only two of these beds were made and sold at a price of $6.3 million, making them the most expensive beds of all time.
A Louis Xiv Ormolu-Mounted Ebony Marquetry Center Table – $5.7 MILLION
Period: 1685
Country: France
Sold: November 1, 2000
This Louis XIV Ormolu-Mounted Ebony Marquetry Center Table is made from numerous luxury materials including brass, ebony, pewter, tortoiseshell, and blue-stained horn. The table was built around 1685 and designed by Andre-Charles Boulle. This center table is gilded with designs like oak leaves, acanthus scrolls, foliage, and masks. It was first sold in Paris in 1770 by Barthélemy-Augustin Blondel d’Azincourt and has since passed into many collections before selling at Christie’s auction.
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