The leather sandals that Steve Jobs auctioned off for thousands of dollars | Life

These Steve Jobs distressed leather sandals are going up for auction at a price you can’t imagine.

Steve Jobsthe co-founder of Apple, was a man ahead of his time, so much so that he managed to position the bitten apple brand as one of the most important in the world, and although Cupertino’s products are not exactly cheap, his co-founder has always been characterized by dressing rather casually clothing that was off-brand and could be found in just about any neighborhood store.

And some of her clothes, which she also wore to the office every day, are leather sandals which she then threw in the trash but which have been recovered, and are now being auctioned off at Julien’s auctions.

Are approximately birkenstock sandals by Steve Jobs and which went up for auction with a starting price of $15,000 and which at the time of this writing, and with two days to go, is priced at $22,500.

The auction manager was Julien’s auctionswhich they estimate may be sold between $60,000 and $80,000. The winner of auction You will not only receive these sandals, but also an NFT in the form of a 360° digital representation of the sandals.

This model was thrown away by the co-founder of AppleSteve Jobs, after using them in the 70s and 80s.

After throwing them away, the chef Mark Shepherd, who ran one of Jobs’ businesses in California, picked them up. “We kept some for ourselves, shared some with landscapers and our friends, and sold some to Goodwill. The collection we end up with is pretty random.the cook told Yahoo in 2016.

They are very worn sandals, so Steve Jobs used them for hundreds of hours over several years, which adds to their value.

Of incalculable value, due to its excessive use

In the auction house they note that “the cork and jute insole retains Steve Jobs’ footprints and the rubber soles show heavy wear”.

On the other hand, Chrisann Brennanformer girlfriend of Steve Jobs and mother of his first daughter, said in an interview with Vogue that these sandals were part of the uniform: “I would never make or buy anything just to distinguish myself from others. I was simply convinced of the cleverness and practicality of the design and the comfort of wearing them. And with Birkenstocks, he didn’t feel like a businessman, so he had the freedom to think creatively.“.

Sandals have an incalculable value, yet they have already been part of several exhibitions including the Salone del Mobile in Milan (Italy) in 2017, the Birkenstock headquarters in Rahms (Germany) in 2017, the first Birkenstock store in the United States United in SoHo (New York), a furniture fair in Cologne (Germany), Zeit Event Berlin in 2018 and the Wurttemberg History Museum in Stuttgart (Germany).