It’s the best wedding present ever.
Designer Marc Jacobs, who married Charly Defrancesco this past weekend, has purchased a waterfront Frank Lloyd Wright home in Rye, NY, for $9.17 million.
The 6,000-square-foot home will be the newlyweds’ main residence, sources say.
The Max Hoffman House, at 58 Island Drive, was built in the 1950s for Austrian-born American Max Hoffman. He became the first importer and dealer of European luxury cars, like Mercedes, Jaguar and Porsche, after fleeing the Nazis for the US. The home was later owned by the late philanthropist/art collector/real estate heir Emily Fisher Landau.
Joshua Wesoky, of Compass, repped the sellers, Alice and Thomas Tisch, in an off-market deal. Laura DeVita of Julia B. Fee Sotheby’s International Realty repped Jacobs and Defrancesco.
Because it was an off-market deal, no listing photos were available. Expert Wright photographer Pedro E. Guerrero has some shots of the Hoffman house on his website.
The purchase, which closed today, was first reported by WWD. The Wall Street Journal first reported the purchase price.
“This feels like really a new chapter,” Jacobs told WWD in February. “I’d like to live a life outside. I just sit home and watch TV in the five-floor townhouse, you know? It’s like, I’d like to be doing that with a beautiful view with dogs running around in the yard. … I’ve never had a house outside the city. Never. Wait till you see it.”
The idea of leaving their five-story West Village townhouse first struck over Fourth of July weekend last summer, when Jacobs and Defrancesco visited artists Rachel Feinstein and John Currin at their Orient Point home on Long Island’s North Fork. The couple’s house hunt spanned Long Island and Connecticut before ending in Westchester.
“It’s like you know when people say when you find the right one, you’ll know it?” Jacobs told WWD. “I sat in the living room and I was like, ‘I could be happy here not even reading. I need nothing. I could look out the window and go to that meditative state of just being happy, of just being.’ And I’m not somebody who talks like that. I’m not Donna Karan.”