Tasteful Friends: French Baroque Meets Ultra-Gaudy Middle Eastern in Mississauga, Canada

The furniture at 9/75 is truly stunning as are the silver "thrones" at 28/75.

That is hideous. Where do you even buy that kind of furniture? It looks cold and sterile almost like an upscale sanitorium.

I've never understood the desire or need for a house this large.

I lived in a very similar new palace like this, outside Cannes for a few summers. I disagree with your snarking on the furniture. It's what make such a Louie Says House of Saud Palais, a home. It all comes together.

No, it really doesn't R4.

R2, I would think the furniture is imported from Saudi Arabia or some other Middle Eastern country. Or maybe high end European furniture companies will custom make anything you like for the right price.

Was it designed for people? Living people? That is my question.

No outdoor pool?

The people who decided to build this and furnish it with Trumpian gold furnishings need to be punished.

Buy it and open it as a celebrity rehab center.

R4, may I ask what you do for a living that you lived in a similar mansion in Cannes?

Its all designed and sourced through London and Paris decorators. It comes from all over. Certain elements of this Palais take a lot from luxury hotel design, hotels these people spend a lot of time in. I think the silvery amber shiny master bedroom and dressing room and bathroom are chic. As is the gym, and the movie theatre. There I some taste and design involved. There are vast useless areas. But you'd be surprised how they can be used. For example large dinner parties can given on the floor, out carpets laid out for the occasion. Or just having tuna sandwiches in some immense salon, for the hell of it.

I looked up the address - it seems it's been on and off the market for years.

Is Mississauga THAT nice? I stayed there once and it just seemed like suburban hell.

Most of the place could be salvaged - it's fine, just remove the furnishings and a few decor changes and it would be suitable.

I just can't imagine creating that property and being - nah, fuck it.

I worked for mid-east royal families.

You know a booked has been choked to death in that downstairs club

Mississauga is near Toronto. Heating costs for such a big place must be astronomical in the winter.

[quote]I worked for mid-east royal families.

Oh cool. As an assistant or stylist or something like that?

It looks like a pleasure palace, not a primary home. But who knows. Anyway it's not awful and there is a real sense of scale, they didn't skimp and downsize. The atrium is horror but so many of these petit palais must have one.

I was a few pay grades above that.

You could easily bring out the French elements and draw from that. There is potential.

Well, money doesn't buy taste.

I could have my own little bit of the Loire Valley right in Ontario!

The acrylic Louis XVI "Ghost Chairs" in the 21st photo remind me of an undergrad "The School For Scandal", production that I designed. All of the furnitre was clear, black, and white acrylic, with much of the set painted to look like marble, which was then inlaid or covered with additional panels of acrylic. It was one of my favorite projects I ever did.

Anyway, this place isn't a complete nightmare, but it's far too big for me.

*All of the furniture

The landscaping is non-existent, which is bizarre. There's no drive, no cour d'honneur. No fountains. A stab at a garden. Where is he underground parking garage? I didn't look through all the photos. Where are the pools?

The front elevation is better than the rear.

R25 - there's an indoor pool. It is Canada after all.

But I agree - it's like it wasn't really ever finished.

AND there's no laundry line in the back!

The silvery bedroom suites are pretty restful. I could rest there. They could be SO much worse. The decor looks like gut renovations of old luxury hotels in European cities. This is what people want.

R56 has a nive tonality. I would swap out the gaudy Marie Thérèse lustres and appliqués. All the fixtures need to be Venini and Barovier & Toso and it would be great.

nice

I mean photo 56 of the dressing room with the lacquered cabinets.

I think the gym, disco, rec room and cinema could all be souped up with some Memphis, some F1 engineering, and some American diner/streamline influences. The home cinema has the start of a "teen dream" vibe.

It's...............cohesive.

To me, photo 56 looks like a kitschy expensive hotel suite in Vegas.

Really don't like the black stone with the thin diagonal white veins in the kitchen.

Haha. Okay, R19. You want to be mysterious. You don't want to say exactly what your job was.

The house is far from fine, it's fucking hideous, inside and outside, a mix of too tiny rooms (some of the sitting rooms are bursting with only a sofa and two chairs) and other pointless rooms are on a scale to house an army of ancient Chinese clay warriors.

Unless someone wants a casino property in Mississauga or wherever the fuck, it's ridiculous. The size stretches the imagination for anyone who doesn't live a life at the court of a prince or archbishop, but it's the the size that offends, it's the vulgar empty taste.

In photo 37, the intricate patterns on the red sofas and the carpet are starting to grow on me, when viewed from above.

The exterior is actually quite nice, the detailing outside is pretty good, some care is been put into it, there's nothing jarringly worng. But inside it manages to be ornate and sterile at the same time. Thats quite a feat, but not in a good way. It manages to look like a Middle Eastern hotel

Many of the architectural details and even some of the furniture is quite nice, its just not doing it for me, and I like ornate gilted furniture, but this just doesnt look right somehow

Its also obscenely huge

R8 No outdoor pool cos... Canada. Even the indoor pool has its own fireplace

I think the thing that puts me off is that nowhere in the place is there any sense of intimacy whatsoever

Aren't a lot of the most expensive mansions in L.A. very similar to this, just with more tasteful furniture?

It's $45,000,000 CAD.

If you convert that to USD, search the furniture for change, and take into account the Canadian Universal Healthcare - it's practically free!

eg. lots of pale stone and a sterile feel.

It amazes me that people with that kind of money can't hire or defer to the guidance of a competent designer. Money can't buy taste, indeed. And in Mississauga of all places, lol (I live there, btw). There is a posh area here similar the Bridal Path in Toronto (where Drake lives and Prince used to live) but no way in hell this place is worth $45 mil. This is still Canadian suburbia after all. And yes, we have outdoor pools here, and certainly at that price tag I would expect one in addition to the indoor one.

I would love to have a small house that is styled like this one on the exterior. The interior could be dramatic but not this dramatic.

A nice Persian family will snap this up.

I think the outside is rather pretty. Some of the inside needs to be glammed down,but overall theres a lot of possibilities. No hope for 99% of that furniture ! The 2 chairs in that circular entry do look rather French deco though. I also thought the party area was cool,can you imagine the hell of a bash you could have in there?

R13 Mississauga IS suburban hell so your impression was correct.

That's not a house. It's a very fancy mausoleum.

[quote]I've never understood the desire or need for a house this large.

Look, this cult has a lot of members. Now help me finish painting mystic sigils on the floor, it's almost time for The Convergence.

Why not have a large house? You can't take your money with you.

Because I don’t like to have to walk from the toilet to the sink to the shower. Every thing becomes a trek. “Oh, I want a pair of socks.” They are only two rooms and a hundred yards away. It’s ridiculous. Who needs twelve seating areas?

The master bedroom had two king size beds. Did two obese giants live there?

R47 I'd rather have a smaller house and help a bunch of good people with the left over money

Staff would spend a lot of their time cleaning the chandeliers.

Classy houses have the word “mansion” on the gate.

[quote]some of the sitting rooms are bursting with only a sofa and two chairs

There isn't much furniture at all in large sections of the house. Perhaps what's there is staged.

I couldn't the architect's name or year of construction in the listing. Anyone know?

^ I couldn't FIND

This says built in 2013.

That is one of the ugliest, most sterile kitchens I've ever seen. I don't think I'd like to cook there. And the amount of chandeliers, lucite chairs and 99.9% of the furniture needs to be tossed. There were a couple bedrooms I liked, the bar and gym were pretty decent, never going to say no to a viewing room and some of the bathrooms are VERY relaxing looking. Overall though, just TOO TOO HUGE.

Would it work as a bed and breakfast?