He died at the age of 78 David Lynch. The director of Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet e Twin Peakshad been among the protagonists of the last one Furniture Fair with the installation Interiors by David Lynch. A Thinking Roomtwo rooms of thought set up in pavilions 5 and 7 of the fair which invited spectators to immerse themselves in his imagination.
Visionary genius, multifaceted artist and in his own way too designer. Not everyone knows that the American filmmaker he loved designing and building furniture in his free time. He had learned to work with wood thanks to his father who had a workshop. Says Antonio Monda, curator of the project presented at Salone 2024: «When I contacted Lynch last summer, he asked me for a couple of weeks to develop an idea. Then he told me: ‘Okay, I’m working on it, but starting from what I’m working on now’. I thought I was watching a film, but instead I found him intent on sand a desk in Los Angeles. From there, I realized that it takes the same passion, time and dedication that it does for film, but in a parallel context. I wanted to include scenes from his films on the way to the room, but he wanted something completely separate.”
Made with the contribution of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, his ‘thinking rooms’ they were thought of as oasis where you can stop and think and regenerate, in contrast to the hustle and bustle of the fair. Immersed in blue, they housed in the center a sort of throne equipped with a foldaway table, complete with sheets of paper, pencils, colors and brushes to draw and give shape to one’s thoughts, surrounded by images that depicted a series of visions between dream and reality.
Born on January 20, 1946 in Missoula, Montana, he started out as painter (his works are currently exhibited in museums and art galleries such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia) and then dedicated himself to cinema where he worked as director, screenwriter and producer but also editor, sound designer and sometimes actor, singer and musician. Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival, as well as the Palme d’Or at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival for Wild at Heart, he received several Oscar nominations and incredible popularity for the TV series Twin Peaks.
As well as imagining surreal interiors where to set your films, David Lynch had had the opportunity to deal with the interior design also in reality, collaborating in the creation of the Parisian club Silencio which takes up the name and settings of the famous venue that appears in Mulholland Drive. Founded in 2011, and then also replicated in New York in 2023, Club Silencio is among the most exclusive venues in the world also thanks to his dreamlike and mysterious atmospheresthanks to the soft lights and the unmistakable contrast between the colors blue, red and gold.
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