Star Wars costume designer’s personal sketchbook makes £100,000 at Bonhams

The archive of John Mollo, the concept artist behind the Star Wars franchise, came up at Bonhams this week. Leading the sale was a personal sketchbook showing some of the first hand-drawn costume designs for Darth Vader, Chewbacca and the stormtroopers.

Known as ‘Notes & Sketches 1’, the custom-bound volume dating from April 1975 to July 1976 conta…

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