it's that time of the month again, kittens!
today's pad is a personal WHORANGE fave: '50s starlet jayne mansfield's infamous pink palace. known not only for its cotton candy hue, but for its heart shaped details and haunted history.
located at 10010 sunset blvd. in beverly hills, this pad was purchased in 1958 for $76,000 by miss mansfield and her mr. universe hubby. the palatial pad was immediately painted powdery pink to reflect miss jayne's trademark color.
surprisingly, miss mansfield decorated her lavish digs on a dime. she wrote over 1,500 furniture and building suppliers and asked for free samples. in exchange, she allowed donors to brag that their wares were featured in her majestic mansion. the pitch worked and miss jayne received over $150,000 worth of free merchandise!
fab features included an iron door, a gigantic crystal chandelier, pink shagged bathroom, a heart-shaped fireplace, a heart-shaped jacuzzi, and a heart-shaped swimming pool which read "I love You Jaynie" in gold leaf mosaic.
after miss mansfield's tragic death in 1967, owners included ringo starr, mamma cass elliot, and engelbert humperdink.
rumor has it, despite several attempts by these owners to paint over mansfield's signature pink, the bright hue would always mysteriously return. in addition, the palace was reportedly haunted by miss jayne's bikini clad ghost.
in 2002, the pink palace was demolished.
although jayne mansfield's pink palace pad is gone, the rich mammaries memories will forever live on in our hearts! PERIOD.
if you'd like your home to be considered for WHORANGE'S montly pad, please drop me a line at [email protected]. feel free to include two non-flash, composed, sexy pix of your darling den. no nudity required. xoxo.
{images via ginger <3 and the selvedge yard.)
Comments
Absolutely crazy fantastic! So sad to hear the pink mansion was demolished. I wouldn't mind hanging out with Jayne Mansfield's bikini ghost.
Posted by: Gretchen | April 05, 2010 at 04:07 AM
I love those floating bathing beauties. I want a couple hundred of them. I must admit that I have not seen many images of Jayne Mansfield before. I never realized how much Mariska Hargitay resembles her.
Posted by: Arawa | April 05, 2010 at 06:03 AM
Aw, man! That heart-shaped bathtub is totally impractical... Not deep enough. But the heart-shaped pool, I can really get behind.
Thanks for posting these.
Posted by: Amy Thibodeau | April 05, 2010 at 07:48 AM
Out of control! This is amazing!!!!
Posted by: Suzy | April 05, 2010 at 11:07 AM
I'm sure Jayne Mansfield's ghost haunted that house because the afterlife must have been quite boring in comparison.
Posted by: Kayla | April 05, 2010 at 01:39 PM
It's totally like living at the fancy version of the Madonna Inn! If forced to choose just one room, I would gladly be placated with my own version of his bondage/insane asylum/vegas bar padded redrum. Anyone who has seen the made for tv movie starring Loni Anderson and Arnie knows that a ton of fun was had in that house before she became a Hollywood Babylon tale of caution. Chihuahuas, pinkness and goodtimes aplenty - aye yi yi!
Posted by: Ebooty | April 05, 2010 at 02:47 PM
PS- I second Amy, you could bath Chihuahuas in that bathtub and they'd be complaining that it was too small.
Posted by: Ebooty | April 05, 2010 at 02:55 PM
so amazing so amazing
Posted by: brian | April 05, 2010 at 04:42 PM
The whole thing is oddly uterine... loves it!
Posted by: erin@designcrisis | April 05, 2010 at 07:48 PM
Love these photos!...I went to the Pink Palace about 10 years ago to do Engelbert Humperdinks makeup, I believe he was putting up for sale at the time. Anyhoo, the photo above with the emerald color bed was actually his bedroom and HE KEPT THE SAME MIRRORED HEADBOARD! (I only know this because I did his makeup in the dressing area behind the bed). In fact, the structure of the house was pretty much exactly the same as when Jayne had it. That office was the same, sans red padded walls. However, he did add a life size plaster statue of Elvis in the downstairs music room by the pool. Fantastic royal blue shag, shag, shag!!!
Posted by: Kirsten | April 06, 2010 at 10:40 AM
My hideous bathroom walls, with their thick, cake frosting-like stucco, once caused a visitor to my apartment to exclaim, "It's like you're peeing inside of a cake!" (Seriously--there are frosting "peaks" on the walls from floor to ceiling.)
I used to think my cake bathroom was something special, but now I think it's totally boring compared to Jayne's pink wall-to-wall carpeted cake bathroom. Not so incidentally, when I first moved into my place, I was going to decorate the bathroom with cake photos and dub it either the Betty Crapper or the Dunk'n Heiney.
Once again--brilliant post, my dear! I'm so sad to know this mansion is gone forever.
Posted by: Holly | April 06, 2010 at 03:03 PM
Kirsten, I completely worship at your feet!!! Memories to last you a lifetime. xoxo
Holly, cake photos in bathrooms. I approve!
Posted by: tula | April 07, 2010 at 11:58 AM
omg this is amazing. thank you soooo much for posting. pink shag covered bathroom with gold heart tub ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!! heart swimming pool!!!!!!!!!! wowwowoowowowowow.i had no idea.
Posted by: Jamila Tazewell | April 18, 2010 at 10:07 PM
Love these photos!...I
Posted by: tiffany | May 04, 2010 at 11:40 PM
I love it! Wow!
Posted by: Keshia | February 06, 2012 at 02:01 AM