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View all postsA Floating Eliptical Staircase
This was a highly complex project - the Architectural firm BAR had designed an elliptical cantilevered staircase in wired brushed Portuguese limestone called Alhambra. CoorItalia worked with the architects and General Contractor in the USA first, to come up with the templates for each one of the stairs - treads and risers, and with the laboratory in Italy to come up with the Shop Drawings. These steps were then manufactured in near Carrara, in Italy, assembled in mockups, disassembled and shipped to the job site for final staircase installation.
The end result is spectacular - a true example of the staircase as a lifting focal point in a home. But the triumph was also in taking exacting design and construction requirements (the tolerances for the treads to fit over the cantilevered rods were extremely tight) and making everything just fit perfectly.
For the same project we produced in the same Alhambra limestone, cut to size floor tiles, two fireplaces and a solid sink for the powder room.