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Inside Lenny Kravitz’s Brazilian Farm Compound

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Lenny Kravitz opens the gates to the sprawling Brazilian estate he’s spent over a decade turning into a working farm and rock-and-roll sanctuary.

Architectural Digest’s “Open Door” series pulled up to a property most fans never knew existed: Lenny Kravitz’s nearly 1,000-acre fazenda outside Duas Barras, in the state of Rio de Janeiro — not Trancoso, Bahia, as some accounts have claimed. The Grammy-winning musician bought and rebuilt an 18th-century coffee plantation into a functioning farm, complete with livestock and crops that feed his guests, and he walks AD through every corner of it in the 2019 tour.

• Kravitz first found the land around 2007 while on tour, when a friend invited him out to the countryside — he ended up staying six months, learning to ride from local cowboys before deciding to buy the estate.
• The main house mixes colonial Brazilian architecture with midcentury design from Sergio Rodrigues and Oscar Niemeyer, plus custom pieces from Kravitz’s own firm, Kravitz Design.
• The grounds include a full regulation soccer field, a gym, a churrasco (Brazilian barbecue) pavilion, a pool, and multiple guest bungalows built out of former plantation outbuildings.

A 2007 Tour Stop That Turned Into a Decade-Long Build

Kravitz didn’t set out to buy a farm in Brazil. He found the property while touring the country, took a friend up on an invitation to see the countryside, and stayed for six months, learning horseback riding from the cowboys who worked the land. That stretch away from stages and studios stuck with him enough that he bought the estate outright and spent the next several years reshaping it, piece by piece, through Kravitz Design — his own architecture and interiors firm, the same one behind furniture and hospitality projects he’s built his design reputation on outside of music.

Colonial Bones, Midcentury Glamour

The main house still carries the structure of the original 18th-century coffee plantation, but Kravitz filled it with vintage Brazilian midcentury furniture from Sergio Rodrigues and Oscar Niemeyer — two of the country’s defining modernist designers — layered against custom Kravitz Design pieces. Vintage photography, murals, and guitars fill the walls, and the centerpiece of the living space is a transparent acrylic grand piano designed by Philippe Starck. It’s the kind of house that reads like a museum of Brazilian design history with a rock star’s memorabilia collection dropped on top of it.

Kravitz calls the farm a vital counterweight to touring — the place where he unplugs, works the land, and says he finds his deepest creative peace.

A Working Farm, Not Just a Retreat

What separates this compound from a typical celebrity vacation home is that it actually functions as a fazenda. The land produces fruits, vegetables, and livestock that go straight to feeding guests on the property — a working farm layered underneath the design showcase. Readers who’ve followed other over-the-top celebrity and design tours on AD’s “Open Door” format, or who liked the scale of builds like Building New York’s $200M Apartment, will recognize the format: a famous name walking room to room, but here the rooms include a barn and a soccer pitch instead of a penthouse terrace.

The Grounds: Pool, Pitch, and Pavilion

Outside the main house, the property spreads into a full-sized regulation soccer field, a gym, and a dedicated churrasco pavilion for Brazilian barbecue — practical amenities as much as luxury ones, built for a household that treats visitors like extended family. An expansive pool ringed by tropical flora anchors the outdoor space, while multiple guest bungalows, carved out of the plantation’s original outbuildings, give the estate the feel of a small village rather than a single residence. It’s a different flavor of scale than the pool-heavy compounds featured in These Mansions Have Backyard Waterparks And Insane Pools, built around agriculture and gathering space instead of pure spectacle.

Kravitz has been candid about why he keeps coming back: the farm is where the noise of touring stops. He’s said the land taught him to slow down, and more than a decade after he first rode out into the countryside on a borrowed horse, he’s still the one running the churrasco pit for his guests instead of hiring it out.