Step Inside a Broadway Designer’s Tranquil Retreat in Maine
Best known for branding iconic Broadway shows including Hamilton and Rent, Drew Hodges has sensitively reimagined the interiors of a 19th-century saltwater farm
Art lured Drew Hodges to the coast of Maine several decades ago, but a 19th-century saltwater farm, set on one of the coast’s storied peninsulas, is what anchored the trained artist and award-winning Broadway designer to the place.
Best known for his iconic branding of Broadway shows (Rent, Hamilton, Chicago), Hodges has sensitively reimagined the interior, and filled it with a collection of his favorite artists, many who are synonymous with Maine.
Hodges’ fascination with the state emerged when he was a young artist. “While everyone around me was gushing over modern art, I was looking at the paintings of Rackstraw Downes,” he says, of the British-born artist who painted Maine landscapes in the mid-1960s.
It was another artist who inspired Hodges to take the plunge and purchase the picturesque retreat. “The house recalls Andrew Wyeth’s Weatherside, which, of course, made it hard for me to turn away,” says Hodges.
Hodges’ home is just one of several unique properties featured the pages of the recent tome The Maine House II (Vendome Press) by Maura McEvoy, Basha Burwell, and Kathleen Hackett.
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