Frank Lloyd Wright's Max Hoffman House purchased for $9.17M by Marc Jacobs

2019-07-10T19:42:00-04:00

Fashion designer Marc Jacobs has paid $9.175 million for a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed house in the wealthy New York suburb of Rye. Mr. Jacob's agent Laura DeVita of Julie B. Fee Sotheby's International Realty, said her client had been searching for an architecturally significant home in Westchester and planned to use the property as a weekend retreat from his busy job.

Formerly owned by Maximilian E. Hoffman, the residence was one of the last projects Wright worked on before he died. Hoffman commissioned Wright to design the home after Wright designed an auto showroom for his Jaguar dealership in New York. Located at the north end of Manursing Island, the Hoffman House is a 6,000-square-foot home nestled in a private community with its own marina and beach. The L-shaped residence was built in 1955, four years before Wright passed in 1959. Located on 1.97 acres of land, it's no wonder well-known fashion designer Marc Jacobs purchased the house.

View this post on Instagram All the Hoffman bedrooms were located in the east wing, each having outdoor access through mahogany French doors. The house's granite ashlar was coursed with overhanging stones in a horizontal pattern that Wright had developed at Taliesin East in Wisconsin. The original copper fascia has a deep green patination from exposure to the salt air of Long Island Sound...

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Max Hoffman House purchased for $9.17M by Marc Jacobs