On Wednesday, a trove of 450 objects once owned by the late filmmaker David Lynch hit the block at Julien’s Auctions, where it raked in $4.25 million in a white-glove sale. The day’s biggest hit was the group of scripts from Lynch’s unrealized film project, Ronnie Rocket: The Absurd Mystery of the Strange Forces of Existence, which sold for a whopping $195,000. Other scripts also sold for eye-popping sums: $104,000 for a set of three Mulholland Drive (1998) scripts, $91,000 for script copies of the 1990 pilot episode of Twin Peaks (with the series’ original title Northwest Passage crossed out), and $78,000 for a group of scripts for Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992). Lynch’s director chair—which Julien’s had trotted out across Los Angeles in a “mystery tour” ahead of the auction—went for $91,000, far surpassing the presale estimate of $5,000–$7,000. Lynch’s director chair in front of a red curtain, a recurrent motif in the director’s films. Photo: courtesy Julien’s Auctions. The filmmaker’s other personal artifacts, including musical instruments, movie props, furniture pieces, and books, also trumped expectations. Among them were a vintage telephone from his production office that roped in $13,000, a framed photo of a nuclear explosion that featured in Twin Peaks: The Return (2017) and fetched $45,500, and Lynch’s personal 35mm print of Eraserhead, his seminal 1977 debut film, that sold for $52,000. And of course, there’s the director’s own La Marzocco GS/3 espresso machine, which realized $45,500 against a high estimate of $3,000. “Every object in this collection served as a window into Lynch’s surreal and uncompromising creative world—whether from his groundbreaking films, television work, or personal studio,” Catherine Williamson, the auction house’s managing director of entertainment, said in a statement. “The global response to the auction speaks not only to the cultural importance of his legacy, but to the profound admiration and reverence he inspires among