Decorations include sculptures by American artist "It's overwhelming high luxury," Drake told Architectural Digest (AD). “I also think the house says that I will forever remain solid in the place I was born.”Our website, archdigest.com, offers constant original coverage of the interior design and architecture worlds, new shops and products, travel destinations, art and cultural events, celebrity style, and high-end real estate as well as access to print features and images from the AD archives.Superstar Drake goes home to Toronto to build his eye-popping pleasure domeThe master bath features a Nero Marquina marble vanity and tub. “It will be one of the things I leave behind, so it had to be timeless and strong,” he adds.Dubbed The Embassy, the house takes its cues from traditional Beaux Arts architecture, distilled and slightly abstracted to imbue the classic idiom with a more contemporary spirit. He purchased the mansion paying a whopping amount $6.7 million in 2016 where he will be neighbors with Gordon Lightfoot, the Canadian singer. "But the exterior profiles are more minimal and the lines are a bit cleaner. “Once you’ve chosen a certain style, you can dance within that style,” the designer observes. “The bed lets you float, the shower lets you escape and gather your thoughts, and the closet makes you want to talk to yourself while you’re getting dressed.”A suspended cantilevered block marble stair is adorned with chandeliers by As always, God is in the details. But the new photo shoot offers an unprecedented look at its design, including the 3,200-square-foot master bedroom, that basketball court (featuring his brand's owl logo in the center circle) and an ornate yellow lounge that Rafauli described as "modern Art Deco. That's not what Drake wanted, and that's not what I do.
Drake gifted himself a massive 40,000 square feet home in the Bridle Path area of his birthplace, Toronto, Canada. The furnishings, here as throughout the home, were all custom designed by Rafauli in materials that range from dyed ostrich skin and mohair to macassar and bronze.A backlit panel of brown agate semi-precious stone softly illuminates the studio lounge. He and his celebrity client also acquired items by Italian firm Venicem and New York's Lumifer, as well as textiles by the likes of Alexander McQueen and Jean-Paul Gaultier. This isn't stucco, paint and fake gold. The area near Los Angeles has been home to Kanye West, the Kardashian clan, Justin Bieber, and plenty of other rich and/or very famous folks.
Inside Drake’s $100m mansion in Toronto where he’s waiting out self-isolation to reunite with son Adonis.
Remember the chintzy, pimped-out McMansions that were a staple of the long-running MTV series Two sculptures by Kaws flank the home’s entrance. A one-ton bed, a two-story closet and a 4,000-pound bathtub carved from a single slab of black marble -- Drake's Toronto mansion is a case study in extravagance. The mansion opens to a two-story hallway. Drake House in Toronto, Canada. There’s the world-class recording studio, which Drake likens to “eccentric 1970s studios mixed with Annabel’s in London”; the well-used kitchen that features the first stove from Rafauli’s new line for La Cornue; the awards room, which tells the story of Drake from his childhood to his years on the Canadian television show Surveying the splendors of his Canadian pleasure palace, Drake takes the long view: “I think the house shows that I have true faith in myself to take on this task when I was just 27 and see it through,” says the now 33-year-old superstar.
The double-height hall will serve as a party area, with covered … The bed and bed base, which weigh roughly one ton and cost more than many people’s entire homes, is from Rafauli’s new line for Hästens, called Grand Vividus.