“An artist or artists should be there,” David Lynch’s daughter wrote of the newly on-the-market Los Angeles home of the famed artist and filmmaker who died this past January. In a Reddit thread under the mantle thatjenlynch, Jennifer Lynch, herself a filmmaker and the author of the Twin Peaks–affiliated book The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer, wrote, “the details around the property speak of Dad and his amazing eye.”
Lynch and her three siblings wish they could keep it, she wrote, but evidently David Lynch included a stipulation in his will: “Immediately sell the compound as a single property and after taxes split proceeds evenly between the four children.” Of the arrangement, Jen Lynch wrote, “Dad didn’t want any of the four of us to feel more or less loved than the others.”
A Zillow listing for the 2.3-acre compound in the Hollywood Hills bears an asking price of $15 million and features eye-catching photographs of the 10-bedroom/11-bath home, including a swimming pool, a workspace with an editing suite and private screening room, and unforgettable lime-green kitchen countertops.
In the Reddit thread, Jen Lynch followed up amid answers to queries from fans and calls to turn the compound into a museum. She confirmed a connection between one of the houses on the compound and her father’s 1997 film Lost Highway, and notes that the “amazing” pool house was built by Eric Lloyd Wright, a grandson of Frank Lloyd Wright—one of whose own sons built the main house on the property in 1963.
“The entire place [is] inspiring and meant to support the creation [of] many things,” Jen Lynch wrote. She added: “It’s set up to support and inspire creativity. It’s also a beautiful place to spend Christmas and Thanksgiving.”
As it happens, Thanksgiving for the Lynch family was a subject of conversation between ARTnews and David’s brother John and sister Martha at a gallery dinner in 2019. When their mother was still alive and living in Riverside, California, the Lynches would gather for the holiday. Asked what it was like, Martha said, “It was pretty ordinary!”
