Everything Is In The Ascendancy
There has to be something about staircases and stairwells that is seen to be both aesthetically beautiful and at the same time totally functional and an integral part of an architects jigsaw puzzle when fitting in all the component parts that make up a house/dwelling.
From the broadsheet press, I've been clipping in this particular sector over the past 25 years, there is obviously something visually attractive that prompts 'the picture editors' to sporadically insert these pics.
Looking through my file yesterday and looking at the dates and the consistency in print suggests that this/these intriguing images forever turn us on either to the nostalgia of days past or the highlighting of what new technology and materials can achieve.
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| Groningen Museum - Holland |
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Château de Montrésor - Loire
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Château de Montrésor - Loire
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| Somerset House, London |
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| Somerset House, London |
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| The Vatican |
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| Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
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| Vatican Museum |
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| Dean's staircase, St Paul's Cathedral - Christopher Wren |
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| Robert Adam's Home House - Portman Square, London |
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| The Museum of Czech Cubism, Prague |
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| Art Deco style house, Vedado, Cuba - Rafael de Cardenas |
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| Das Triest Hotel, Vienna |
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| La Sagrada Familia, Barcelona |
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| Wells Cathedral |
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| 1725 Staircase - Spitalfields, London |
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| House in Atlanta Georgia |
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| Hampstead House - Tim Sherbourne |
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| 'Miracle Staircase' Sisters of Loretto Chapel, Sante Fe |
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| Hotel Du Vin - Bristol |
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| Sculpture by Louise Bourgeois - Tate Modern |
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| Midland Grand Hotel - Morecambe |
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| Quartier 206 shopping centre, Berlin |
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| V&A staircase model, possibly created in the manner of all leading carpenters/furniture makers in as much that they created a 'model' of the suggested end product. |
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| European Parliament, Strasbourg |
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| St Pancras - George Gilbert Scott - recently tastefully refurbished back to a hotel by Manhattan Loft Corporation, Harry Handelsman |
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| Elspeth Beard - Water Tower - Godalming |
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| Eva Jiricna - London |
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| Eclectic European exterior staircase |
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| Alex Finn |
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| Finca de la Belette - Marbella, Spain |
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| Homewood - National Trust - Patrick Gwynne - Corbusier inspired |
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| German Railways HQ, Frankfurt |
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| Rundell Associates |
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| Eva Jirinca |
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| John Pawson's home |
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| No. 4 Route Champ d'Entainement - Duke of Windsor's House, Paris |
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| Hotel Du Marquis de Lagrange, Paris |
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| DNA Staircase by Ross Lovegrove |
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| The Guggenheim Museum - New York by Frank Lloyd Wright |
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| Atmos Studios design's for house in Clapham, London |
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| Longchamp's Manhattan Store - Thomas Heatherwick |
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| Longchamp's Manhattan Store - Thomas Heatherwick |
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| Staircases have been used for 'grand' entrances by the Busby Berkeley Babes, Morecambe and Wise, Dame Edna Everidge and beauty contests over the decades. |
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