This Sleek Toronto Penthouse Hits Just the Right Note for Its Record Producer Owner

Modern open plan dining and living room with cork ceiling, sheer curtains, curved walls, statement pendant lights, green glass table.

Architects design shelves all the time: shelves for books, for knick-knacks, for wedding china, for grinning family portraits. These were the kinds of shelves Trevor Wallace thought he was building for Noah ‘40’ Shebib, a multi-award-winning record producer, when his firm was enlisted to lead the overhaul of this modern home, a penthouse in Toronto. It would turn out not to be the case.

“Initially, he told us that he wanted a place ‘for his trinkets’,” recalls Trevor, the principal and founder of Reflect Architecture. “So we specified these simple wire boxes from Muller Van Severen in Belgium, that we felt would serve as a contemporary kunstkammer, or cabinet of curiosity. It was only later that we found out his 'trinkets' actually meant Grammys.”