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Practical reading if you are specifying a staircase, comparing designs or planning an opening.
For two thousand years the staircase was how a building announced itself. Every other finish in a house has since been copied and cheapened. The staircase cannot be, which is why it is the one upgrade that still returns what you put into it.
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A plain-English guide to choosing a staircase design: how much light you want to keep, how the stair will be seen, who uses it, and which of the six systems suits your opening.
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How solid hardwood, marble, quartz, laminated glass and epoxy wood actually behave on a staircase: weight, wear, grip, cost and what each one does to the engineering underneath.
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What separates a curved stair from an elliptical, a spiral and a helical one, why rolled steel changes what is possible, and how treads up to nine feet wide are built on a single flight.
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A guide to staircase railing options: frameless and standoff glass, hand-forged wrought iron, powder-coated steel and timber-clad metal, and what each one does to the look and the budget.
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Interior glass partitions divide a space without closing it in.
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Stairs Pro Atelier takes on curved, helical and sculptural staircase commissions with their own engineering.
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Both give an open, modern flight.
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Integrated LED lighting, thicker treads, Starfire glass, steam-bent handrails and powder coat colours: which staircase upgrades change how the stair feels, and which only change the invoice.
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