Pierre Jeanneret, Le Corbusier's cousin and collaborator, moved to Chandigarh and stayed for about fifteen years, running the project on the ground while Le Corbusier visited.
He designed most of the city that people actually live in: the housing for government employees at every grade, the schools, the colleges, the shops, the Panjab University buildings including Gandhi Bhawan, and the furniture for all of it.
The furniture was made locally in teak and cane, in quantity, for offices and houses. Chairs, desks, stools, benches, bookcases, made as government issue.
From the 1990s a trade developed in which that furniture was bought or removed from Chandigarh offices and sold at auction in Europe and the United States, where individual chairs have reached prices in the tens of thousands of dollars.
Furniture designed as low-cost public equipment for Indian civil servants is now a luxury collectable, and a substantial amount of it left the city before anyone stopped it.
His ashes were scattered in Sukhna Lake at his own request.
He learned Hindi, wore local clothes and lived in a house he designed for himself in the city. He was the only one of the four principal designers who made Chandigarh his home.
The Punjab and Haryana governments began cataloguing and protecting what was left after the export trade became public, and some pieces have been returned by auction houses under pressure.
Gandhi Bhawan at Panjab University, a lotus-shaped block set on a water tank, is the building of his that architects come to see. It was designed for a Gandhian studies department and is still used for one.