Tasteful Friends: David Jacobs' 80s mansion in LA

A listing:

Whenever I see an LA house on a steep hillside and panoramic view of LA, I think Cielo Drive and crazy, knife-wielding groupies coming out of the shadows.

Looks a little Miami-tacky.

gasp (it's that bad). teardown

Reminds me of Bette Midler and Danny DeVito's house in Ruthless People.

I like the library where he has a desktop set up (with doors to a balcony).

The rest has too many weird angles to worry about decorating with.

I love, LOVE, *LOVE* it! I wouldn't change a thing. I wish I had the money. I love that 80s Memphis style.

I really love Post Modernism and Memphis. This house has a lot going for it architecturally, but most of the furnishings are too bland or just wrong - if you really lean heavily into some bold of the period art and furniture choices this place could be, as they said, rad - but otherwise it’s always going to be a mess - it only works as an intentionally over the top time capsule.

Good God, what an eyesore. Memphis trash! It's a multi-million dollar teardown.

Karen McKenzie, President of the Knots Landing HOA Board, would not approve.

I wonder just how much 80s jizz was spent in that wrap-around pool. That must have been a boarding house for Santa Monica boys back then.

Didn’t he own the ranch that was used as Greg Sumner’s home on Knots Landing? That was a lot more tasteful than this.

The nicest thing that I can say is that indeed, it does look very much of its time.

As with the house in Ruthless People, this must have been seen as tacky and ridiculous even then. It's a like a Nagel painting on acid.

It might look okay, after a $30,000.00 paint job.

R7 - never cared for Memphis style, but if you love it so much you should go visit a little museum in Mt Dora, FL (about 30 min north of Orlando) with a good collection including previously owned furniture by David Bowie.

R16 thanks.

And people accuse David Bowie of having had good taste!

That stuff is dreadful. If someone had a trashy grandmother who was a robot...

It looks grungy and tattered.