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Inside Toronto's $23M Home

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Toronto's Integral House is an architectural jewel--and it's up for sale. Who's going to be the lucky buyer?

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A concert hall designed for 150 inside the house, where the likes of composer Philip Glass have performed.

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Intimate spaces punctuate the house, rooms within rooms.

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"I think it's one of the most important private houses built in North America in a long time," says Glenn D. Lowry, director of New York's Museum of Modern Art.

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The galley-style kitchen.

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A sense of discovery hums through the house.

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A master bedroom in the treetops, overlooking a ravine.

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Everything was done to the precise specifications of James Stewart, a millionaire mathematician.

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The architectural marvel includes an elegant pool, on the lower level, in a room in which the windows can be made to disappear to allow for open-air swimming.

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The house was christened 'Integral House," a reference to the mathematical integral symbol, commonly used in calculus.

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