Items ranged from video cameras and guitars to taxidermy deer heads, props from Twin Peaks and Mulholland Drive – and the director’s personal coffee machine
Personal effects belonging to the film-maker David Lynch, who died in January, have fetched more than $4m at auction in Los Angeles, with the highest bid of $195,000 going to scripts for his unrealised film project Ronnie Rocket.
Wednesday’s auction of almost 450 items included props from Lynch’s films, personal items such as video cameras and music equipment, his director’s chair, two taxidermy deer heads, his 35mm print of his debut feature Eraserhead – and his beloved La Marzocco GS/3 home espresso machine, which fetched $45,500 and presumably produces a damn fine cup of coffee.
Big-ticket items included scripts from the production of Mulholland Drive, which sold for $104,000, and for the pilot episode of Twin Peaks, which sold for $91,000. His director’s chair, emblazoned with his name, fetched $70,000.
The director’s custom-built guitar with five fretted necks sold for $39,000, while his red curtain and black and white zigzag rug, in the style of the Black Lodge from Twin Peaks, fetched $32,500.
