The home of filmmaker, musician, and artist David Lynch could be yours for $15 million.
Prior to his death this past January, Lynch lived on a compound that spanned 2.3 acres. The Hollywood Hills home was built in 1963 by Lloyd Wright, son of the modernist architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and Lynch expanded it to include the two neighboring lots.
He lived there for more than 35 years, using the space as both a living quarters and a workspace, with an editing space and a private screening room on site, according to the Zillow listing for the home.
On at least one occasion, it was also a film set: Lynch memorably turned his home dark and spooky when he worked it into his 1997 feature film Lost Highway, where a paranoid protagonist and his wife are shown living here.
The compound includes 10 bedrooms and 11 bathrooms, as well as an art studio, a workshop, and more. That studio was where Lynch made many of his more recent beguiling paintings, which channel some of the nightmarish visions akin to the ones seen in beloved films like Eraserhead and Mulholland Drive.
Lynch began as an artist before becoming a filmmaker, and though his cinematic output has generally received more attention than his visual art, that has begun to change more recently, with his paintings be shown widely by Pace, one of the world’s largest galleries.
A few of Lynch’s paintings appear to even be hanging in the home right now. In the Zillow listing, a brownish canvas with words scrawled across it hangs in a living room opposite a big TV. The listing also features an image with a stack of Lynch-related books, including the catalog for his 2007 show at the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris.
At least based on the listing photos, the house appears to have fully survived the destructive fires that blazed across the surrounding neighborhood earlier this year. Shortly before his death, Deadline reported that Lynch had fled his home amid the blazes.
