When it comes to art, Dr. Phil’s son Jordan McGraw is more like Dr. Demento. The controversial TV shrink’s musician son has listed his 6,170-square-foot, Tuscan-style mansion for $5.75 million and it looks like Art Basel vomited inside of it.
McGraw, who is currently on tour with the Jonas Brothers, has stuffed nearly every inch of the home with strange, provocative and expensive works of contemporary art — not to mention dozens of creepy doll-like sculptures.
There is a dramatic staircase made from what appears to be tangled branches encircling an equally organic-looking bar that is, for some reason, colored a very unnatural shade of blue. There is a deconstructed swinging egg seat in the entrance foyer. The living room is made of loudly colored and patterned furniture, and is anchored by an art wall packed with a neon word sculpture that reads “Hello There” in a horror movie font, a print of Darth Vader in a suit, a koala head, numerous toy-like figurines and, of course, the obligatory Banksy. And that’s just getting started.
The game room has a blue floor and a white pool table with lion-head legs that appear to have sneezed white paint around each foot. In the background, more cartoon doll figures are on display. But the home’s pièce de résistance is certainly the dining room, where an entire wall is given to what looks like a secret agent’s gun collection. Upon closer inspection, the automatic rifles, handguns and shotgun are slightly melted and set behind Plexiglas. This, too, is apparently a work of off-putting art.
“The ‘guns’ on display are actually an anti-gun art installation where the useless guns are melted,” Jerry J. Sharell, a spokesman for the “Dr. Phil” show, told CNN. (The image below has been deleted from the online listing — but not before social media captured screen grabs.)
The five-bedroom and six-bathroom, home also has the normal trappings of a high-end West Coast property. There’s a master bedroom, a home theater and a large pool, spa and patio.
Billy Dolan of Hilton & Hyland are being charged with the Herculean task of finding the right buyer for the eccentric listing, and we have a word of advice for them straight from the mouth of Dr. Phil himself.
“Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.”
