TORONTO, ONTARIO
PRIVATE RESIDENCE
FLOOR AREA: 20,000 SQ.FT.
Located in a one acre city lot back into the prestigious golf course, this private residence has a French Chateauesque façade cladded with smooth limestone and black slate roof shingles, as well as articulated with intricate stone carving details. In the back yard, a cabana enclosed with folding glass doors and equipped with a thatch roof circular bar and kitchen, as well as a pool house featuring operable sliding skylight and swim-to-sunken bar, are connected to the main house though an orangery covered with glass roof lanterns.
The interior space is organized around an indoor courtyard featuring a gigantic fireplace and covered with a retractable glass roof. The fireplace forms the focal point as you enter the house, and then the space unfolds itself and flows into another space along the colonnaded corridor open to the courtyard at one side. The master suite at second floor featuring spacious his and her ensuite bathrooms and walk-in-closets captures the best view of the garden and the steep roof lines of varying heights and angles covered with black slate