The one-of-a-kind estate of the late and great American filmmaker David Lynch is available for $15 million.
Lynch spent decades assembling and designing his Hollywood Hills compound, which hit the market this week almost eight months after his death at age 78. Photos of the 2.5-acre property reveal a creative sanctuary crafted in much the same style as Lynch’s iconic films — dreamlike environs and mid-century modern aesthetics come together in moody, yet mundane scenes of his daily life.
The eclectic listing, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, is held by Marc Silver of The Agency.
Lynch, pictured at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017. REUTERS
One of the property’s brutalist buildings overlooks Lynch’s pink primary residence. Neue FocusThe hillside compound includes 10 beds and 11 baths across seven structures. The array includes a pink house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright’s son and a brutalist studio where “Mulholland Drive” was produced.
Lynch began assembling his hilltop hideaway in 1987 with the $560,000 acquisition of the Beverly Johnson House, the Journal reported. The pink home was designed by Lloyd Wright, the son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, in 1963.
Lynch apparently preferred the son, previously telling the Journal that Lloyd Wright was “more minimal. More pure. But just as beautiful.”
Lynch began his compound with this three-bedroom home. Neue Focus
Two descendants of the legendary Lloyd Wright worked on the property. Neue Focus
The warm living room exudes mid-century taste. Neue Focus
Striking cement chevron patterns dot the home’s interiors and exteriors. Neue Focus
A modest, lime green kitchen. Neue Focus
A wall of glass opens up to the pool. Neue FocusThe three-bedroom, 2,000-square-foot residence exemplifies the Wright penchant for organic textures, bold geometric lines, walls of windows and effortless indoor-outdoor flow. Striking cement chevron patterns dot the home’s interiors and exteriors.
Lynch kept it in the family in 1991 by tapping the son of Lloyd Wright, Eric Lloyd Wright, to design his pool and pool house.
A brutalist, boxy building nearby served as Lynch’s personal production studio.
Lynch’s brutalist studio starred in the 1997 film “Lost Highway.” Neue Focus
Lunch’s editing suite. Neue Focus
The enigmatic filmmaker had a clear preference for smooth gray plaster. Neue Focus
A bedroom. Neue FocusThe building’s foreboding exterior and warm wood interiors even featured in Lynch’s 1997 surrealist neo-noir horror “Lost Highway.”
A professional-grade editing suite and a lecture hall-like screening room numbered among Lynch’s tailor-made additions to his property.
Elsewhere sits a hilltop guest house where Lynch filmed his beloved “Weather Report” series, shared daily on his YouTube channel throughout the pandemic. The hilltop aerie and other standalone living spaces on the compound are coated in the same smooth gray plaster.
The hilltop guest house. Neue Focus
A cluttered art studio. Neue Focus
An outdoor workshop. Neue FocusAlthough Lynch’s films and TV series made him a household name, the director was a similarly dedicated studio musician, painter, sculptor and furniture maker. He constructed workshops throughout the compound to host these hobbies. Some of Lynch’s own metalwork can be found throughout the compound, the Journal reported.
Silver told the outlet that he hopes a fan of Lynch will take an interest in the property.
The presence of two generations of Wright designs likely secures the property from total redevelopment, all but ensuring that the compound will always have a Lynchian touch.
