The longtime Hollywood Hills estate of the late, great filmmaker David Lynch has landed on the market for $15 million, the Wall Street Journal reports. Spanning 2.5 acres, the compound is made up of five neighboring parcels, with three residences and multiple ADUs, offering a total of 10 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms across 11,000 square feet of interior living space.
Lynch’s first purchase on the compound was the Beverly Johnson house, a 2,000-square-foot structure designed in 1963 by Lloyd Wright, the son of Frank Lloyd Wright. The Blue Velvet director paid $560,000 for the pink midcentury modern dwelling in 1987. “I personally like Lloyd Wright more than Frank Lloyd Wright,” Lynch told the WSJ in July 2024, about six months before his death at the age of 78. “Lloyd Wright is more minimal. More pure. But just as beautiful.” In 1991, he commissioned the architect’s son, Eric Lloyd Wright, to design a pool and poolhouse for the backyard, featuring the same recurring concrete chevron motif found throughout the abode’s design.
In 1989, the Twin Peaks creator bought a two-story Brutalist residence two doors down from the Lloyd Wright home for $542,300. In 1995 he acquired the house in between the two for $346,500. The former served as a filming location for Lynch’s Lost Highway; he redid the exterior with thin, slot-like windows to give it an eerie effect for the surreal 1997 film. The latter purchase served as Lynch’s studio, hosting a library, a screening room, and a professional editing suite.
Listing photos show walls lined with velvety gray plaster, wood-paneled workshops where the famed director created furniture and other art pieces (some of which were auctioned off, along with many of his other belongings, earlier this year), and a cheerful kitchen with lime green countertops and round wooden knobs on the cabinets.
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In 1997, Lynch reportedly said that the Lloyd Wright house, which served as his primary residence, “affects my whole life to live inside of it,” adding that it frequently informed his artistic endeavors. “I see things, shapes or something that would go inside of it and that leads to furniture or film.”
The listing is held by Marc Silver of The Agency Beverly Hills.