LOS ANGELES, CA.- Juliens Auctions and Turner Classic Movies announced today The David Lynch Collection a live auction event taking place Wednesday, June 18, 2025 in Los Angeles and online at juliensauctions.com
A remarkable archive of over 450 items from the influential and singular auteur, David Lynch, hailed by the New York Times as one of the most distinctive voices in modern cinema, spanning his legendary five-decade career in cinema and television, as well as an acclaimed musician, visual artist, designer, author and actor, will be offered in this exclusive auction tribute.
This stunning collection offers a rare look into his creative universe and the Lynchian style that defined his art and iconography and a new wave of contemporary cinema, featuring personal artifacts and film-related items from David Lynchs home including props, musical instruments, fine art, furniture, home decor, tools from his home woodshop, paint supplies from his home art studio, and more. Also featured are significant memorabilia celebrating Lynchs status as a visionary of the 20th and 21st century renowned for his surreal, haunting, and uncompromising masterpieces Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive, Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, and Blue Velvet, as well as objects reflecting his commitment to the philosophy of transcendental meditation the basis of his establishment of the David Lynch Foundation.
Highlights include:
David Lynchs directors chair emblazoned with his name on the back ($5,000 - $7,000) (photo top left); his personally owned Twin Peaks Black Lodge style red curtain and black and white zig-zag rug ($1,000 - $2,000) (Lynch had pieces such as this for decorative purposes around his house, including in his personal music sound recording studio); his personal 35mm print of his groundbreaking debut feature film Eraserhead ($500 - $700); a large framed photograph of a nuclear bomb explosion in Gordon Cole's office, screen-matched to the seventh episode of Twin Peaks: The Return entitled "There's a Body All Right" ($1,000 - $2,000); a group of four colorful prop menus for Winkie's Sunset Blvd from the film Mulholland Drive ($500 - $700); Lynchs La Marzocco GS/3 home espresso machine from his home ($2,000 - $3,000); a vintage tan chenille upholstered Boomerang sofa with wood legs and attached end table, the same model of couch used in David Lynch's Lost Highway ($3,000 - $5,000); a 2012 Danny Ferrington custom console steel guitar with five fretted necks, designed and played by David Lynch in his home studio ($2,000 - $3,000); his personal collection of Blue Velvet record albums ($400-$600); and more.
Juliens and TCM are honored to represent and offer to the public for the first time this incredible collection of one of the greatest and most revered filmmakers of all time, David Lynch, said Catherine Williamson, Managing Director of Entertainment, Juliens Auctions. These historical and cherished pieces reflecting David Lynchs singular artistic vision, as well as his passions and pursuits ranging from his directors chair, espresso machine to his guitar, record collections and Twin Peaks style decor, come directly from the home of the visionary artist whose enigmatic films stirred our most imaginative and collective surreal dreams.