Jakob Mizrahi builds every piece of furniture himself and wraps every surface in vinyl. The result is the most committed Memphis interior you’ll see outside a design museum.
Most people pick a bold accent wall and call it a day. Jakob Mizrahi picked a design movement and built an entire house around it. His home near Copenhagen is a full-scale Memphis interior, every large wall surface painted, everything else vinyl-wrapped, and every piece of furniture built by hand in his own workshop.
Memphis design lasted roughly a decade before the world decided it was too much. Born in Milan in 1981 under Ettore Sottsass, it threw primary colors at geometric forms, laminated everything in pattern, and declared that decoration was a language worth taking seriously. Jakob apparently never got the memo that it ended.
The light switches are wrapped. So are the faucets. Once you commit to doing everything, leaving anything out starts to feel like a mistake.
The Living Room: Where the Floor Sets the Rules
The black-and-white checker floor is vinyl applied directly to the surface, and it changes how every object in the room lands. Furniture on a neutral floor floats. On a checker floor it becomes a placement. Every sofa, every sculpture, every low table reads as a deliberate move on a game board.
The house-shaped shelving unit is the room’s focal point, pink interior walls, a blue outline, red triangular roof, and a yellow zigzag trim where it meets the wall. The shelves inside run in horizontal aqua stripes. On them: a silver stag figurine, chrome Alessi pieces, a candle form. Objects chosen for shape, not sentiment.
The red Togo-style sofa is the only soft element in a room full of hard geometry. A sleeping dog is tucked into the cushions. It’s the detail that keeps the space from tipping into showroom territory. Against the blue walls and beside a tall yellow tiger-stripe mirror tower with three glowing porthole cutouts, the sofa earns its color simply by being surrounded by everything it isn’t.
The Dining Area: A Table No Catalog Would Sell You
Wide alternating stripes of blue and pink run the full length of the dining tabletop. Not an edge detail or a painted runner, the whole surface. Rattan-backed chairs in matte yellow sit at the ends; black metal chairs with leather seats take the sides.
Beneath the table, a pink circular rug with teal stripe insets pulls the seating into a defined cluster. On the wall behind: a descending zigzag mirror in silver triangles with a round speaker at the top, half light fixture, half sculpture. The dining zone asks the same question every other zone in this house asks: how much can one surface carry before it becomes noise? The answer, consistently, is more than you’d expect.
The Kitchen: Zebra Vinyl From Cabinet Doors to the Faucet
Every cabinet door in this kitchen is wrapped in zebra-stripe vinyl with blue rectangular panel inserts and pink hardware handles. The backsplash is aqua tile grouted in pink. The countertop runs in horizontal stripes of teal and pink. The faucet, arch-shaped, hand-painted in alternating pink and blue bands, is the detail that stops people mid-scroll.
How He Did It
Almost every surface in the house is vinyl-wrapped rather than painted, only the large wall areas are painted. The vinyl is the same product used in car detailing and furniture wrapping: flexible, pattern-printable, and reversible. It applies to curved surfaces and small-scale objects that paint can’t reach cleanly, which is why the faucet and light switches are possible.
The Bedroom: Teal, Checker, Zebra and a Headboard That Doesn’t Exist Anywhere Else
Teal walls, black-and-white checker floor, zebra-stripe door, and a checkered border running along the ceiling like a graphic cornice. The bedding mixes zebra pillowcases with a bold brushstroke print in pink and charcoal. None of it coordinates. All of it belongs.
The headboard is Jakob’s own design. Stacked triangles in teal and light blue form the lower section; above them, a house-shaped crown in red with a yellow circle and patterned panels. Against the teal wall it reads like a building facade rather than furniture. Triangle wall art in pink-bordered frames echoes the geometry from the opposite corner.
The Piano Room: Tiger Stripe Meets a Grand Piano Playing It Completely Straight
Gold and black tiger-stripe vinyl covers every wall. A chandelier made from painted spheres in blue, amber, red, lilac, and yellow hangs above. Inside this room sits a glossy black grand piano with the gravity of a concert hall. The piano keeps the room from becoming a joke. The room keeps the piano from becoming furniture. Neither wins, and that’s the whole point.
The Home Office: A Chair That Doesn’t Exist Because He Made It
Pink walls, a neon green desk surface, a black-and-white striped dresser along the back wall. The chair is the room: pink circles, black-and-white striped panels, a yellow frame, red triangle feet. It sits in no catalog. It exists because he built it.
There are no dead zones. No surface that trails off. No transition that forgets what it’s supposed to be doing.
What This House Is Actually Demonstrating
The Memphis movement’s central argument was that decoration is a language, not a crime. Jakob’s house is a fluent speaker. Every room flows into the next not because the colors match, they don’t, by design but because the level of commitment is identical throughout. The piano room has the same conviction as the hallway trim. The dining table surface has the same intention as the kitchen backsplash.
Most decorating decisions stop one step too early. A bold sofa surrounded by safe walls. One painted accent wall surrounded by three beige ones. What this house shows is what happens when you don’t stop, when every surface gets an answer. The result is a home that looks like nowhere else on earth, which is, in the end, the whole point of decorating.
See the Full Original Post
Photos and home by Jakob Mizrahi (u/JakobMizrahi), originally shared on r/maximalism. Jakob shares ongoing updates from his home and workshop on Reddit. The comment sections are exactly what you’d expect from a house this divisive.
