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The David Lynch Collection
- Duanemclemore 1y ago"A rare look behind the red curtain of one of the most influential artists of our time..." Even if you're in the "just looking" category like me, this is such a great glimpse into the life and creative process of a true original. I loved going through this because it ranges the gamut from completely banal stuff like light stands to the personal like custom furniture he made by hand. And then there's stuff to the just plain wacky - a couple Mr. Coffee coffeemakers currently going for $1,250!? Anyway - thought I might not be the only David Lynch fan out there, and you may get a kick out of this.
- loehnsberg 1y agoThe La Marzocco espresso maker at $7000 is cheaper than buying a new one.
- Duanemclemore 1y agoThey actually point the retail value out in that listing. Lol. The idea of shopping David Lynch's estate sale like you were looking for deals is one I think he'd chuckle at. Edited to add - I think $1,200 for two Mr. Coffees is a little over retail though...
- blitzar 1y ago> "A rare look behind the red curtain" OMG he had a 10 year old Sony camera and a coffee table just like me! SanDisk Extreme Pro 128GB cards the choice of me and David Lynch. The equipment might be the same, but the line between me and genius is wide.
- _elephant 1y agoI had the same feeling. Scrolling through it felt like watching the outtakes of a creative life. What really struck me wasn’t the expensive items, but the strangely human scale of everything. The handmade furniture, the dusty coffee makers, the fragments of ideas that never turned into stories. As someone who builds narrative systems, this felt more intimate than any documentary. You're not just seeing what Lynch created. You're seeing what he lived with, and what he quietly left behind. That’s what made me pause.
- lou1306 1y agoIt really struck me that we both owned the same edition of Crying of Lot 49. Something about the democratization/massification of culture, I guess.
- pnut 1y ago"damn fine cup of coffee" is one of the top Twin Peaks memes.
- petetnt 1y agoIf anyone wants another glimpse behind the red curtain, I highly recommend the documentary David Lynch: The Art Life from 2016. It focuses on David Lynches upbringing and formative years as an artist up until the release of Eraserhead that completely changed the direction (or maybe rocketed forward?) of his career. It also shows Lynch working at this workshop, showing some of the tools you see on auction here too. The collection has some absolute grails too for any fan, like the original script to Twin Peaks as Northwest Passage. RIP to true master.
- me4502 1y agoI truly hope that some of this collection, such as annotated scripts/etc, eventually make their way into film or media museums. There’s so many interesting items in here otherwise
- Duanemclemore 1y agoI can only imagine that he pledged his actual papers to a museum or University film school a long time ago. It's not uncommon to do that well before you pass away. And you / your estate gets a very substantial tax break for it. So I would -definitely- guess this is what's left after anything of scholarly or creative value was taken care of. I mean - the sale of two of the three adjacent properties he owns just off Mulholland would be enough to keep those inheriting his estate going for a while on their own. I doubt "everything must go" to pay off creditors or something... Anyway - yeah I can only imagine the actual papers are at a scholarly institution.
- qmr 1y ago> very substantial tax break How would this be valued precisely?
- Duanemclemore 1y agoI've never gone through the process, but I imagine it would involve establishing the historical importance of the person who owned them, establishing their significance as instruments of the thing for which the person is known, and establishing their authenticity. Then from that an appraisal would be done and the proper documentation generated that would protect the donor from accusations of tax fraud. The donor and recipient would both agree upon the language of these documents and possibly on an officially recognized value for the donation.
- zxexz 1y agoYep, you've pretty much nailed it, at least in the US and UK.
- joeevans1000 1y agoAnd now direct your attention to my APC Smart-UPS 1500 Battery Backup plus Emulex 355 SAN Storage Switch for MAC. Yes... once owned by David Lynch himself.
- hobbitstan 1y agoI guess someone thought a David Lynch museum wouldn’t generate as much revenue as an auction. Sad to see.
- jazzyjackson 1y agoI'm much happier that the espresso machines will live on making espresso rather than sitting behind glass with a plaque
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- HenryBemis 1y agoBut hey, in case you don't have enough books lined up waiting for your eyes, there are some great ideas/suggestions. Viggo Mortensen is also an author? I saw the book "Coincidence of memory", I looked him up on Wikipedia, and yes, he has written plenty-a-books. So.. there are a few more now on my "future book buys".
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- Klaster_1 1y agoWow, that's a load of items. Is it normal to own so much stuff in US or that's a what a typical well-off person accumulates over their life time?
- Duanemclemore 1y agoHe owned three adjacent homes in the Hollywood Hills. He ran his film production company and musical endeavors out of them. So these aren't the random collectibles of a hoarder, the vast majority of this stuff would have been used for these business purposes.
- jazzyjackson 1y agoYou see how big houses get in America? All the houses are FULL of stuff Relevant George Carlin bit on the subject: https://youtu.be/JLoge6QzcGY https://youtu.be/JLoge6QzcGY?
- chneu 1y agoAmericans often have to rent multiple storage units to store their stuff. This happens after their garages begin to overflow with junk. Id say like 75% of Americans don't use their garage for their car, it's just storage for shit. A lot of Americans also buy 5th wheel recreational vehicles(caravans) that they can't store at home so they have to store them at designated facilities. It's extremely common to see run-down caravans parked beside houses or in the driveway, too. It's crazy. People buy em, never use em, and then they rot. Same with boats and off road vehicles; sitting there rotting at storage facilities or next to the garage. Americans own an INSANE amount of stuff. I'm American and I find it crazy how much shit people own. Remember that per capita Americans are the highest consumers in the world and it's not even close. It has to do with the American exceptionalism thinking. That Americans are special and therefore more entitled to over consume. Manifest Destiny baby, god chose America! The extreme capitalism in America reinforces this mentality. The amount of crap an American owns is a status symbol. A lot of Americans are proud to own stuff they never use. In the spring time, when folks start opening their garages, i like to see how much winter junk people have accumulated. A month or two ago it was comedic watching people move stuff out of their garages to reorganize so they could then put it all back.
- padjo 1y agoThe man sure owned a lot of coffee makers.
- chneu 1y agoLynch famously used daily routine to allow his creativity to flow. He drank, according to him, 10-20 cups of coffee per day. He even had his own blend available for purchase.
- nicholasbraker 1y agoAlmost tempted to do a bid on the Black Lodge Style Red Curtain and Zig-Zag Rug. Almost.. ;-)
- sidcool 1y agoIt's tempting. But too overpriced
- kubb 1y agoAm I the only one for whom it's unsettling that as soon as someone famous dies, people sell their stuff online for exorbitant prices to make profit, like vultures feeding on their corpse? It combines callousness with consumerism with greed with celebrity worship in the weirdest way. Maybe it's just my perception.
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- comrade1234 1y agoI don't think it's wrong at all. Better than a bunch of junk that you inherited but have no interest in sitting around gathering dust. Just thinking about my very old step-mother and very old father-in-law and all of the shit they've accumulated and how I'm going to have to deal with it after they die... For example, my step-mother was a grade-school teacher and has a collection of old (some very old) children's books. I have no interest in them - some are even quite racist. But hopefully someone else will find value in them.
- kubb 1y agoYeah, but you'd sell it on a yard sale for cheap or something like that.
- blitzar 1y agoIf they were people of note the yard sale would be held at Christie's not in the street in-front of the house. If the collection of books is of note likewise.
- pfannkuchen 1y agoNo the point is that a yard sale would accomplish the goal of getting rid of the stuff without maximizing profit. The only reason to hold it at Christie’s is to maximize profit.
- reconnecting 1y agoI like his choice: starting from the La Marzocco at home, through the Hasselblad camera, and all the scroll saw, drill press, etc. Every man's essentials. But I was surprised by his choice of Bang & Olufsen for music. For example, his Sennheiser headphones are mostly for hearing sound as it is, while B&O always tries to 'enhance' sound in their own way. It doesn’t match much.
- wtk 1y agoCould have been a gift, or experiment!
- ch_sm 1y ago> But I was surprised by his choice of Bang & Olufsen for music. For example, his Sennheiser headphones are mostly for hearing sound as it is, while B&O always tries to 'enhance' sound in their own way. It doesn’t match much. I feel like I can identify with that. I have a pair of AKG studio headphones for recording music and listening for "mistakes" in mixes, but otherwise mostly B&O Hi-Fi speakers. To me, the sound is more "immersive" and emotionally captivating than e.g. studio monitors, and they still have lots of detail. (Plus, there’s the issue of them looking as nice as they do and being very easy to set up — it makes them easy to live with). Just my 2 cents.
- dole 1y agoimho, people buy B&O for the design, not for the sound quality
- frereubu 1y agoI'm never sure about the estimates on auctions like this, but the fact that so many things are going way over the estimate reminds me of the Sotheby's auction of items from the failed Pharmacy bar by Damien Hirst where things were going for at least four times the estimate. I could sort of understand that for specially-made things like cocktail glasses, but it was also true of really mundane items. Clearly I just have a difference sense of value to someone else, but the fact that a really basic filter coffee maker is going for $1,750 feels pretty weird to me.
- wesselbindt 1y agoTaxes, maybe? Buy a fork for 1750, have it appraised by a friend to be worth much more than that, donate your million dollar fork to a museum to write it off.
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- jazzyjackson 1y agoIt's because Lynch was an avid coffee drinker so it's a cute thing to buy, lots of people have enough money to spend thousands of dollars on a cute thing. This is the auction setting the market value, no one is going to appraise the junk at 100x what it last sold for at auction
- andrewchilds 1y agoIt’s not just David Lynch’s own coffee drinking. Making coffee (“there was a fish in the percolator!”) and drinking coffee was one of the most memorable aspects of the original Twin Peaks TV series.
- sneak 1y agoBeing able to use David Lynch’s coffee maker each morning would bring me a lot more joy than my $3000 Macbook Pro has.
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- jiriro 1y agoIf you buy all this stuff – does that make you David Lynch?
- kriro 1y agoMight as well ask here because there will be some fans around. What was his relation to Weinstein? I always interpreted Mulholland Drive as a critique of Weinstein like things going on in Hollywood.
- cempaka 1y agoThe subset of leftie conspiracy theorist Twitter I follow has taken note of some of the books in Lynch's collection like 'Trance Formation of America,' 'Behold a Pale Horse,' and 'Access Denied.'
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