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A piece of 20th-century postwar furniture, a trestle table by Carlo Mollino designed in 1948, broke the million-dollar mark at auction at Christie's New York last Thursday, a first. But nobody expected it to keep going, sailing to a selling price of $3.824 million — nearly 20 times the high estimate — that left an audience of insiders smirking and shaking their heads.

Right about now, someone really regrets missing the big Design Within Reach sale earlier in the week.

What Price Authenticity? [NYT]
Design Within Reach [DWR.com]