Tracy Hanes – Toronto Star

Con­dos in the Yorkville and Annex neigh­bour­hood have come to exem­plify style, sophis­ti­ca­tion and luxury.

So the prin­ci­pals at Man­souri Liv­ing knew the bar would be high for the project they planned to build at 128 Pears Ave.

The result is The Perry, a mod­ern ele­gant build­ing that will estab­lish some firsts on the Toronto condo scene. It’s the first devel­op­ment in North Amer­ica to include kitchen and other com­po­nents by inter­na­tional design firm Poliform. Plus an inno­v­a­tive win­dow sys­tem will allow inte­rior liv­ing spaces to open expan­sively to the out­doors. And buy­ers will receive a one-year mem­ber­ship to an exclu­sive concierge ser­vice. The Perry will open to the pub­lic in June.

“The under­ly­ing vision for project was to cre­ate a bou­tique, inti­mate build­ing,” says Maryam Man­souri, vice pres­i­dent of Man­souri Liv­ing, which rep­re­sents the evo­lu­tion of a home con­struc­tion busi­ness founded 30 years ago by her father, Sharok, the com­pany president.

He and his wife, Fereshteh, are archi­tects who met as uni­ver­sity stu­dents in their native Iran and came to Canada in 1984. Maryam’s sis­ter, Nar­gues, is also a com­pany vice pres­i­dent and the sis­ters are con­cen­trat­ing on build­ing a lifestyle brand focus­ing on urban condo projects.

“In the early stages of The Perry, we worked with the neigh­bour­hood and the city to find some­thing appro­pri­ate for site and the mar­ket place. We went with an 11-storey build­ing, which is pretty rare in the Toronto condo world. It has only 45 suites and is fairly exclu­sive,” says Mansouri.

The Perry will include 2,500 square feet of com­mer­cial space at street level that will house a high-end fit­ness and well­ness cen­tre with pri­vate access from Pears Ave.

The Perry team was care­fully cho­sen and includes Drum­mond Has­san of Young + Wright/IBI Group Archi­tects, inte­rior design­ers Matt Davis and Anwar Mekayech of The Design Agency and land­scape archi­tect Diana Ger­rard of gh3. They came together for an inte­grated design process that also included Man­souri, who holds a master’s degree from the Uni­ver­sity of Waterloo’s school of architecture.

“The essence of the project is con­tem­po­rary but we’ve incor­po­rated really rich fin­ishes and details into the suites and com­mon areas,” says Man­souri. “The palate of today’s buyer is very refined and they def­i­nitely have an appre­ci­a­tion for a con­tem­po­rary aes­thetic, but it’s not always eas­ily achieved.

“You have to spend more time in the design process and in refin­ing details. You can’t dis­tract the eye with busy details or extra acces­sories or components.

“Drum­mond has such an intel­li­gent approach when it comes to design,” she adds. ” He looks at it very cohe­sively and holis­ti­cally and was very con­scious of the con­text of the site and build­ing. We appre­ci­ated his sen­si­tiv­ity to design.”

The entrance to The Perry from Pears Ave. will be dis­tin­guished by custom-crafted solid wood doors with a clas­sic chevron pat­tern, stained in dark grey for a con­tem­po­rary flair.

Sep­a­rate from the rest of the build­ing will be two street-level urban town­houses framed in char­coal lime­stone and with open-concept inte­rior layouts.

Man­souri also was impressed by the clean, mod­ern inte­ri­ors cre­ated by The Design Agency that blended cohe­sively with the archi­tec­ture. The gallery-style lobby will boast a mod­ern fire­place, Cal­cutta mar­ble floors and a custom-made sculp­tural concierge desk.

“They (Davis and Mekayech) are very grounded. It’s very easy for some design­ers to put their inte­rior design brand first and make that a cen­tre­piece. For us, it’s about good design and good inten­tion and good com­po­nents,” says Man­souri. “They cre­ated a lot of pro­pri­etary design details espe­cially when it came to the kitchen and Poliform is a huge part of project.”

Among the sig­na­ture ele­ments of The Perry will be the com­po­nents cre­ated by Poliform, a high-end Ital­ian com­pany which recently opened a show­room in Toronto.

“Poliform has been involved in a few condo projects but in minor parts of inte­ri­ors, such as upgraded kitchens or wardrobes,” says Man­souri. “For us, it’s a pack­age and every suite will come with Poliform van­i­ties, kitchens and wardrobes. Offer lux­ury as a stan­dard has been our mantra since the beginning.”

The Perry kitchens will also include high-end Gagge­neau appliances.

The suites will have nine-foot ceil­ings and floor-to-ceiling win­dows, which will employ an inno­v­a­tive lift and slide sys­tem so the liv­ing room becomes a true indoor/outdoor liv­ing space open­ing to a Juliet bal­cony, stan­dard bal­cony or terrace.

Another perk for buy­ers will be a year’s free mem­ber­ship to Quin­tes­sen­tially, a pri­vate mem­bers’ club with a 24-hour global concierge that can accom­mo­date requests for every­thing from travel arrange­ments to dry clean­ing to restau­rant reser­va­tions. The Perry will also have its own 24-hour concierge.

Man­souri says it was impor­tant to offer an inti­mate green space and Ger­rard came up with an “amaz­ing” out­door amenity that will be clad in blue and mul­berry granite.

“We call it the Seren­ity Ter­race and it will be wrapped in white pine trees,” Man­souri says. “We part­nered with Kiosk in Toronto to fur­nish the com­mon areas in the entire build­ing from their selec­tion of pieces and the exte­rior ter­race will have beau­ti­ful, crafted art­ful pieces by Paola Lenti (a lux­ury fur­ni­ture brand based in Milan).”

“The ter­race will have a din­ing space, an out­door fire­place and an inti­mate, quite ele­gant, envi­ron­ment. It’s a space you can really make use of.”

The pine trees sur­round­ing the ter­race will be lit from below at night.

Man­souri says the build­ing is geared to the end user as “it’s truly a build­ing peo­ple will live in and feel at home in. We are very excited about it.”

Details

Project: The Perry
Devel­oper: Man­souri Liv­ing
Loca­tion: 128 Pears Avenue – at Dav­en­port and Avenue Road
Descrip­tion: 11-storey con­tem­po­rary build­ing with 45 suites
Suite sizes: 687 to 3,950 square feet
Price range: Start­ing in the mid $500,000s
Ameni­ties: Piano lounge, out­door ter­race, pri­vate din­ing room with caterer’s kitchen, meet­ing room, guest suite, 24-hour concierge and access to fit­ness and well­ness cen­tre on premises. Buy­ers receive one year free mem­ber­ship to Quin­tes­sen­tially, a 24-hour lux­ury global concierge service.

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Lau­rin & Natalie Jef­frey are Toronto Real­tors with Cen­tury 21 Regal Realty.
They did not write these arti­cles, they just repro­duce them here for peo­ple
who are inter­ested in Toronto real estate. They do not work for any builders.
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