Acclaimed shutterbug Douglas Friedman has an eye for beauty — and beautiful homes.
The jet-setting photographer has just sold his desert dream house in Marfa, Texas for around $2.4 million, Gimme Shelter can reveal.
Texas is a “nondisclosure state.” That means the price of home sales are legally kept secret from the public.
Known as the Friedman Ranch, the modern dwelling at 2405 Antelope Hills Road first hit the market for $3.7 million last February. It was asking $2.99 million last September, as Gimme Shelter previously reported.
The buyer, we hear, is an East Coast financier. The news comes as Friedman prepares for the release of his latest book, “Full Spectrum,” published by Vendome Press.
“After more than a decade of blood, sweat, laughter and tequila … I sold @thefriedmanranch,” Friedman posted on Instagram.
“Who would have thought that this dusty and derelict piece of land would become one of the 50 most beautiful homes in the @archdigest book. I’m very proud of what happened down there. Marfa is still home, just in a new and different way,” Friedman added.
The property sits on 10 acres and abuts thousands of acres of cattle ranch land.
When Gimme last spoke to Friedman, he said he was planning to focus on his Long Island home and “another idea in West Texas.”
This month, Friedman’s photos of his Eastern Long Island property — a Brookhaven residence that was built in 1870 — are featured in Architectural Digest. Friedman’s pal and top AD100 designer Steven Gambrel created the interiors, while the iconic home-life maven Martha Stewart designed the gardens.
At 2,300 square feet, the Marfa ranch comes with three bedrooms and two baths, a floating roof design — and stunning views of the Davis and Haystack Mountains.
Gambrel, along with Nicole Hollis and Brigette Romanek, helped create the interiors, which included de Gournay hand-painted wallpaper, Isamu Noguchi lanterns and marble tables.
Designed in 2016, the house was also featured in AD’s book, “Architectural Digest at 100: A Century of Style,” published by Rizzoli in 2019.
It features retractable screens to keep out dust and scorpions, and a clerestory window band.
Inside, there’s an open layout that features a chef’s kitchen, a living and dining area, floor-to-ceiling glass doors and hidden storage.
Outside, the grounds include a shaded structure known as a desert palapa, as well as a container lap pool from Modpools, a hot tub, solar power and a private well.
The dramatic landscaping includes local prairie grasses and trees. Friedman once told Gimme he planted 10 oak trees, as well as mesquite and desert sage.
Marfa has been an art-world destination since sculptur Donald Judd first visited in 1971.
The listing brokers were Jeff Burke and Fredrik Eklund of Douglas Elliman’s Eklund Gomes Team.
