7 STAIRCASE BETWEEN MADNESS AND DESIGN

Amazing staircases with unusual shapes. Dangerous, steep, narrow. Designed for small spaces become great design work.

Below we offer our selection of stairs from the excellent design, real masterpieces. Staircase designed to succumb space problems are modeled in ways absolutely incredible. Stairs that seem rocks piled up, become pieces of magnificent design. And not only that. Let's look together:

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Realisation Staircase

This modern staircase was made from a 10mm thick metal sheet. Each of the adjoining steps is connected with a slanting external side beam that forms a bracket attached to the wall. With a concept of a delicate rippling ribbon is definitely one of the most unique and thinnest staircases ever seen. It was created by HSH and it is now in one the contemporary houses in Liben, Prague. Although this original piece might look fragile, each of its brackets is constructed as a firm frame, so it is sturdy enough to carry weights. 

Suspended Staircase

Now, that is an awesome staircase! These original "floating" stairs were designed by Florence architect Guido Ciompi for The Gray Hotel in Milan, Italy.Thumbs up for the designer!

Staircase at XXS House

What is so special about this staircase? Well, the design required remarkably little material and still functions as a regular set of stairs. It was created by Architect Dekleva Gregoric's for an eXtra-eXtra-Small house located in a little historic town in Slovenia. Its dimensions were dictated by law to fall within the measurements of the preexisting house on the site, leaving just 43m-sq (approx 460ft-sq) of potential space. If good things come in small packages, then the XXS house is as good as it gets!

Bookshelf Staircase

This “secret' staircase” belongs to a London Victorian apartment, where it is hidden from the main reception room, to access a new loft bedroom lit by roof lights. It was designed by Tom Sloan at Levitate Architects, who came up with a neat solution to a storage problem .

Space-saving Staircase

These steep and narrow stairs occupy a space hardly bigger than a closet, and were made of economical pine boxes. When designing it, creative Swedish architects at Stockholm-based TAF Architect Office, went for both an aesthetically pleasing and affordable creation.

Rolling Staircase

This spiral staircase appears to lead to nowhere as it was installed as a part of Milan's exposition aimed to show that decor objects can be artworks.The 'Rolling', designed by Roberto Semprini for Edilco, draws inspiration from the ergonomic forms of natural rocks smoothed by water. The stairs look like giant river stones, but they are actually concrete blocks polished to perfection.

Staircase slide

And finally, we propose the craziest of the stairs we saw. The scale slide. If you want to get down from the top floor to the bottom in a very short time why not to have a staircase slide. Uncommon, fun and can become a symbol of the interior design of your living room. Rather awkward to move from the lower to the upper floor, but you know that.

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