The home of celebrity Aubrey Drake Graham in Toronto is a distinct architecture, with enormous facilities such as a luminous basketball court and a roughly 2 square meter pyramid skylight. Manor House demonstrates the opulent side of the owner’s personality.

 

Drake wanted something different for his home beyond prefabricated shiny plaster walls and costly but bland furniture. He commissioned Canadian interior and architectural designer Ferris Rafauli to create handcrafted chambers out of limestone, bronze, rare wood, and other magnificent materials.

Inside the opulent Manor House of pop artist Drake

 

Drake responded in an interview, “This is a home project, so I want it to last 100 years.” I knew I wanted it to be a monument on a grand scale. It will be one of the things I leave behind, so it must be robust and timeless.”

The house is influenced by traditional Beaux-Arts architecture, distilling and abstracting the classic while emitting a contemporary attitude. Create a 19th-century limestone castle in terms of form, materials, and construction procedure. However, the outward configuration is more simple, with smoother lines. Rafauli characterizes the “craᴢʏsᴇxʏᴄᴏᴏl” interiors as modern Art Deco, alluding to the traditional historic design that has been transformed and revitalized to reflect the spirit of the period as well as the DNA of his high-end clientele.

“Once you’ve decided on a style, you’ll ‘dance’ it,” Drake says. This home is the pinnacle of luxury. The room size, materials, floor, and ceiling elements all convey this statement. I want people to see it as a work of home art that I have cherished for years.”

 

The size of the rooms, in fact, sets the tone for the family experience. You will enjoy calm walks and be amazed by the solid limestone walls and flooring with Nero Marquina sculpted marble slabs under the ceiling and antique mirrors wrapped in bronze from the moment you arrive in the lobby. The huge room is 4.1 meters high, with a handmade grand piano by famed piano maker Bösendorfer at the far end.

Drake’s environment is full of music, making for a truly artistic experience.

 

The legendary Metropolitan chandelier, built by Hans Harald Rath to decorate the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, is the focal point of the huge chamber. With 20,000 hand-cut Swarovski crystals, this brilliant artwork is the world’s second-largest installation of its sort.

The roughly 300-square-foot bedroom with a 102-square-foot covered patio is one of Drake’s favorite areas in the house. Drake’s bedroom is where he retreats from the outside world at the end of the night and where he begins his day brimming with joy every morning. The bathtub is where he unwinds and escapes his worries, while the closet makes him want to talk to himself while putting on new clothes.

The bed and footboard weigh approximately one ton and cost more than the average dwelling. Antique mirrors and fine leather upholstery adorn the headboard, which also has whiskey and champagne cabinets. Rug Company’s Alexander McQueen rugs are incorporated into the mother-of-pearl headboard and bedspread.

The house also has a world-class recording studio, a kitchen outfitted with fresh La Cornue creations, an award room that depicts Drake’s biography from birth to adulthood, and an indoor swimming pool encased in gleaming black granite…