The director’s chair was sold for $ 70,000, while a personal copy of Mulholland Drive reached $ 98,000.
The auction of more than 400 personal objects of the director of Twin Peaks and Wild at Heart, David Lynchcollected figures far superior to those planned, reaching more than 1 million dollars in offers prior to the event.
The house Julien’s Auctionsin collaboration with Turner Classic Moviesorganized the sale at the Peninsula Beverly Hills Hotel, where they offered from the personalized director of David Lynch to unfinished scripts, cameras, furniture designed by himself and useful of his films.
The director’s chair reached a final price of 70 thousand dollars, while the scripts of Ronnie Rocket – a 1977 film that never finished filming – were sold for 150 thousand dollars and a personal copy in 35 millimeters of its opera Prima Eraserhead was awarded for 40 thousand dollars. Even the director’s espresso machine found a buyer for 35 thousand dollars.
Martin Nolan, co -founder and executive director of Julien’s Auctions, explained that the initial expectation for the total auction raised between 200 and 400 thousand dollars, but the interest greatly exceeded those figures. “This has already far exceeded our expectations,” said Nolan, who added: “We thought that if we achieved half a million, it would be a really successful auction”. The enthusiasm was reflected in the amount of previous offers, which already exceeded one million dollars before the event began.
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David Lynch’s particular objects that were auctioned
Among the most prominent lots were objects that, outside the context of Lynch’s life, could go unnoticed: books, stage lights, a vacuum, mountains and a smoke machine. Nolan commented that “this is material that is in any house and that we would probably donate to Goodwill when someone dies, but because it is from David Lynch, it has a special value.”
The auction also included furniture pieces designed by Lynch himself, as a modernist style sofa similar to the one in his film Lost Highway (1997). In addition, cameras, music equipment, useful films and menus of the fictitious restaurant Winkie’s, seen in Mulholland Drive. “I think Lynch is someone who really understood and appreciated material culture,” said Dennis Lim, author of the biography The Man from Another Place.
Source: Ambito
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