‘Wonderful and strange’: David Lynch possessions fetch record sum at auction

Published on 20/06/2025 - 14:19 GMT+2

Six months since we mislaid visionary head David Lynch, an auction including nan filmmaker’s director’s chair, creation and his individual 35mm people of Eraserhead went up for grabs this week. With hefty value tags, naturally.  

Nearly 450 items from Lynch’s personal collection were auctioned astatine nan Peninsula Beverly Hills successful Los Angeles. With hundreds of bidders attending successful personification and online, nan waste generated a full of $4.25million (€3.69m). 

The item of nan auction was nan waste of scripts from Lynch’s unfinished movie task Ronnie Rocket: The Absurd Mystery of nan Strange Forces of Existence, which yet went for $195,000 (approx. €169,000).

Other notable items sold were a Twin Peaks-themed mug owned by nan coffee-loving director, which went for $11,700 (€10,150) and nan aforementioned personalised director’s chair, which sold for $91,000 (€79,000).

When nan auction was announced, Catherine Williamson, nan managing head of intermezo astatine Julien’s Auctions, said: “These humanities and cherished pieces reflecting David Lynch’s singular creator vision, arsenic good arsenic his passions and pursuits ranging from his director’s chair, espresso instrumentality to his guitar, grounds collections and Twin Peaks style decor, travel straight from nan location of nan visionary creator whose enigmatic films stirred our astir imaginative and corporate surreal dreams.” 

Known for classics specified arsenic nan TV show Twin Peaks, arsenic good arsenic films for illustration The Elephant Man and Mulholland Drive, Lynch died astatine his daughter’s home successful Los Angeles successful January, aft being evacuated during nan city’s wildfires. He was 78 years old.  

At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, tributes poured successful for nan legendary director, including French vocalist Mylène Farmer’s moving homage during nan opening ceremony.  

There has also been overmuch chatter this period surrounding a Netflix task Lynch intended to make earlier his death, titled Unrecorded Night.  

The enigma bid was comissioned by Netflix and started pre-production. However, it was delayed by nan COVID-19 pandemic and was yet shelved.  

Netflix main Ted Sarandos revealed that Lynch had sounded a constricted bid “filled pinch enigma and risks”, and a caller question and reply pinch Peter Deming, Lynch’s collaborator connected galore projects including Twin Peaks: The Return, unveiled much details.

Speaking to The Film Stage about Unrecorded Night, Deming said: “It was going to beryllium a batch of episodes, because David really liked what he called ‘the continuing story’. I really emotion nan characteristic stuff, but he was like, ‘I’m not going to make immoderate much movies. I’m conscionable going to make longer stories because I emotion nan longer story’.” 

Deming added, regarding nan script: “It took maine 3 sittings to publication it because it was truthful thick, but it was decidedly not Twin Peaks. It was decidedly a really interesting… mystery, I would say. Yeah, it’s excessively bad. It really is. Because it would’ve been good”. 

We don’t uncertainty him for a second.