Someone paid $12,688 for David Bowie's salt and pepper shakers

by Luke Ottenhof

November 14, 2016

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David Bowie's art and design collections were auctioned off this weekend, selling for a total of $55 million.

This year has seen a mass exodus of beautiful creative souls from earth, clearly not interested in sticking around to see what becomes of this planet when a racist, xenophobic predator is elected president of the United States. Among them was creative genius David Bowie, who died in January and broke all our hearts. The British glam rocker’s art and design collections were just auctioned off for £32.9 million ($55 million Canadian) via British auction house Sotheby’s.

The two day sale, which included online bidding, saw portions of Ziggy Stardust’s extensive art collection set new artist price records, and almost definitely saw damn salt and pepper shakers set a new price record, when a spice and/or Bowie enthusiast saw fit to drop £7500 ($12,688.62 CAD) for Bowie’s designer culinary implements. Imagine the bangers and eggs those things have seasoned? If salt and pepper shakers could talk, man…

The auction saw over 1000 people vie for the late rocker’s possessions, with all 350 lots being sold, including Bowie’s ornate record player and lipstick-red Valentino typewriter. Learn more via Spin.

Tags: Music, News, David Bowie

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