The home is an exclusive listing for the Trilogy Team: Paul Maranger, Christian Vermast, and Fran Bennett.
For a cool $28-million, one of Toronto’s most notable properties could be yours.
Located in Rosedale (194 Roxborough Drive), the award-winning “Integral House” is hitting the real estate market today.
You may have read about the coveted piece of architecture in the past. It was owned by the late James Stewart – a mathematician who created a revolutionary series of calculus textbooks – and designed to use curves as an architectural expression of the beauty of calculus.
And apparently, like curves, calculus can be pretty good looking.
Designed by Toronto-based Shim-Sutcliffe Architects, the project took about 10 years in total to complete, and ended up receiving a Governor-General’s Medal for Architecture.
It turns out that Dr. Stewart also had an artsy side – and a passion for throwing some pretty epic bashes.
He was a musician and wanted to design his home to become a space where fellow musicians and creative minds could converge for intimate musical performances.
For that reason, a focal point in the home is a tall, open, and curved room that’s complete with a balcony and glass wall that overlooks the ravine. It was in this space where Dr. Stewart would host 150-person musical performances and lively parties – especially during Pride Week.
The 18,000-square-foot home looks like a modest sized, two-story house from the street (well, at least, by Rosedale standards), but it descends five stories into a ravine in the back.
In addition to the concert space, the house also has its fair share of ‘touches’, like an infinity pool with windows that can disappear for open-air swimming, floors made with limestone from France, a stairwell screened in hand-blown blue glass, and trees visible from all five floors thanks all the glass.
Basically, it’s the type of home where you’d never turn down an invite to a party held within its doors – no matter what else you had going in that night.
Sadly, after a battle with multiple myeloma, Dr. Stewart died on Dec. 3rd, 2014.
Reportedly, his executors will give most of the money from the sale of the property to his chosen arts and scientific organizations.
If the price of the home isn’t in your cards (yet), perhaps whomever purchases it will need some help with the mortgage – the house also has a two-bedroom apartment…
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Photo Credit: James Dow, Edmonton Alberta
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