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Drake's Toronto mansion boasts a chandelier inspired by the Metropolitan Opera

A new Architectural Digest spread also shows his bespoke Bösendorfer piano.

A new Architectural Digest spread also shows his bespoke Bösendorfer piano

The great room in Drake's Toronto mansion is dominated by a chandelier modeled after the famous ones at New York's Metropolitan Opera. (Jason Schmidt/Architectural Digest)

Drake's Toronto mansion is the subject of a new Architectural Digest spread, which describes the rapper's home as an "eye-popping pleasure dome."

While the 50,000-square-foot home, designed by Ferris Rafauli, boasts an indoor basketball court and swimming pool as well as a recording studio, our attention was grabbed by two design elements in particular.

First, we were surprised to see the chandelier in the mansion's great room, above, which is modelled after the famous "sunburst" chandeliers originally designed by Hans Harald Rath in 1963 for New York's Metropolitan Opera. Drake's iteration comprises 20,000 Swarovski crystals, according to Architectural Digest.

Then, there's this bespoke Bösendorfer piano, designed by Rafauli and Takashi Murakami, with a colourful skull motif inside the lid.

Drake's Bösendorfer grand piano was designed by Ferris Rafauli and Takashi Murakami. (Jason Schmidt/Architectural Digest)

See Architectural Digest's full spread on Drake's mansion, which has been dubbed The Embassy, here.