Somebody Paid $45K for David Lynch's Coffee Machine

Many of David Lynch's personal belongings were sold off in an auction this week and most of them sold for way over Julien's Auctions' estimates—including two taxidermy deer heads seen in Twin Peaks, which sold for $16,250, including fees. The estimate was $200 to $300. The auction house says the entire auction fetched $4.25 million, more than 10 times what it had expected. The enigmatic director died in January at age 78. Some highlights:

• A collection of scripts connected to Lynch's unfinished project Ronnie Rocket: The Absurd Mystery of the Strange Forces of Existence sold for $195,000. Lynch described the project, which he began in the late 1970s, as a movie "about electricity and a three-foot guy with red hair," Rolling Stone reports. Scripts for another unfinished project, The Dream of the Bovine, fetched $39,000.

• Lynch's La Marzocco GS/3 Home Espresso Machine sold for $45,500. The Guardian notes that it "presumably produces a damn fine cup of coffee."
• Other big-ticket items included a Mulholland Drive script that sold for $104,000. A script for the pilot episode of Twin Peaks fetched $91,000.
• A director's chair with Lynch's name on it also fetched $91,000.
• The hundreds of other items included more movie memorabilia and props, moviemaking equipment furniture Lynch designed, books, records, and even his woodworking tools. "For somebody who was as spiritual as he was, he also really loved his tools, the things that helped him do his work," Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost tells the New York Times. "He had a fondness for good craftsmanship and that sort of bespoke work that goes into the making of things, as much as into fine art painting or drawing."

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