Pink Palace, Eclectic architecture building in São Paulo, Brazil

The Pink Palace is a 1927 mansion at Rua Bom Pastor 801 in Ipiranga, built in an eclectic style with predominantly Moorish features. Its exterior has a minaret, columns, reliefs and Arab arches; inside, frescoes, metalwork, latticework and a coloured-glass skylight reproduce a Middle Eastern mosque. The floor is granilite inlaid with mother-of-pearl and the staircase is white marble.

Built in 1927 as the residence of David and Munira Jafet, the mansion passed to their son Ibrahim, who lived there with his wife Doris Edwina Yazbek Dumani Jafet and their sons Christian and Luciano until April 1963. It was then sold to the Instituto Santa Olga, an Ursuline boarding school for girls that took in daughters of Russian refugees from the Second World War. The school closed in the late 1990s; psychologist and medium Luiz Antônio Gasparetto bought the house in 2003 and lived there until his death on 3 May 2018.

The interior reproduces a Middle Eastern mosque, with frescoes, metalwork and latticework covering the walls and a skylight with coloured stained glass. The upper-floor corridor holds a large wall painting of a Middle Eastern city, said without written reference to be Baghdad. The name Palacete Rosa is the one used locally for the mansion.

The building is easily accessible within the city and preserves its original exterior design, which is clearly visible from the street. Visitors can best observe and photograph the architectural details during daylight hours from outside.

The house keeps an elevator installed by the Jafet family in the 1920s, a rare feature in São Paulo homes of that period. Its floors are granilite with inlaid mother-of-pearl, and the white marble staircase leads to an upper corridor with a large wall painting of a Middle Eastern city, said without written evidence to be Baghdad.