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Director David Lynch’s LA home, as surreal as his films, listed for sale
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A sprawling Hollywood Hills estate that was home to filmmaker David Lynch until his death in 2024 has been listed for sale. As complex and surreal at the director himself, the property includes seven buildings, one of which was designed by an architectural legend.
Comprising five titles ranged across the hillside, the 10-bed, 11-bath, 8-building compound, sits on about 1 hectare of land, and has an asking price of US$15m (NZ$25.15m).
Lynch started acquiring the properties in 1987, when he bought the architecturally significant Beverly Johnson house. The bold, pink Mid-century home was designed by legendary LA architect Lloyd Wright, the son of Frank Lloyd Wright, in 1963.
Director David Lynch said his work was often inspired by the home he had lived in since the 80s.
According to Architectural Digest, Lynch preferred the homes of Lloyd Wright over those of his more famous father. “Lloyd Wright is more minimal. More pure. But just as beautiful,” Lynch told the Wall Street Journal in 2024.
Recognised by Historic Places LA as an "excellent example of Mid-century Modern/Organic residential architecture“, Lynch said in a 1997 interview that the home was a source of inspiration for his work.
“It affects my whole life to live inside of it [...] sometimes I see things, shapes or something that would go inside of it and that leads to furniture or film.”
The home was designed by Lloyd Wright, the son of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and a celebrated architect in his own right.
The dramatic home comprises massive slabs of concrete and walls of glass, decorated sparingly with textile blocks in a repeating chevron pattern. Both Lloyd Wright and his father extensively used textile blocks in their Los Angeles designs, most famously in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Ennis, Storer and Hollyhock houses.
In 1989, Lynch bought a neighbouring home, which he converted into a studio and the base for his production company.
Built in the late 70s-80s Brutalist style, the building includes a library, screening room and professional-grade media production suite. It also appeared in Lynch’s 1997 film, Lost Highway, starting Patricia Arquette and and Bill Pullman.
Lynch added a third property in 1995. Prior to that he added several other outbuildings, and guest houses, as well as a pool house built by Lloyd Wright’s son, Eric Lloyd Wright, in 1991.
Posting to social media, the film-maker’s daughter Jennifer Lynch said her father’s will insisted the compound to be sold immediately following his death and the proceeds divided between his four children.
“It was very important [to Dad] that none of his children feel more or less important than the others [...] my siblings and I are very sad to see ‘home’ leave our grasp. So much joy and magic happened there,” she wrote.
The main house has many unique architectural elements.
“I would have loved to save it. I would have loved to live in it, there are so many place to lay your head in the beautiful morning, have a coffee.”
She hoped someone would save the property from being divided up.
Speaking to Realtor.com, listing agent Marc Silver of The Agency said he hoped the buyer would be a Lynch fan who would keep the property as it is. He also cautioned anyone thinking of buying the property to tear down and develop.
“There would be a strong response from the public.”
Celebrated for his mind-bending, often surreal films, Lynch is probably best known for the 90s TV show Twin Peaks. However his films, such as Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man and Mulholland Drive, regularly appear on “great“ and ”best of“ lists.
In 2017, the director said he had probably directed his last film, due to developing emphysema after a lifetime of smoking.
Lynch bought a neighbouring property, which was used as a studio and the base for his production company.
He died in 2024 at the age of 78.
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