10 Favorites: Wood and Steel Stairs from the Remodelista Architect/Designer Directory - Remodelista
As we prepare our Lessons from Japan issue, we’re appreciating neutrals, and we always appreciate stairs. Photograph by Mark Woods. A dramatic wood staircase in a new three-story house by Seattle’s Heliotrope Architects; the top floor contains the social spaces to take advantage of sweeping Puget Sound views. A modern stair with ebonized oak treads and steel rails hangs in a three-story vertical space designed by Alterstudio Architecture of Austin. Alterstudio was a recent finalist in our Considered Design Awards; read more in Vote for the Best Office in the Remodelista Design Awards. McInturff Architects of Bethesda, Maryland, added a guest house to a 1930s estate in King George, Virginia. Architects Qb3 designed a new open-plan house on a vacant Philadelphia lot next to a span of traditional brick row houses. Photograph by Todd Mason. This Cobble Hill home by Massim Design Studio in Brooklyn was the winner of our 2014 Considered Design Awards Best Living/Dining Space designed by a professional. In Brooklyn, Jordan Parnass Digital Architecture brightened a historic Park Slope townhouse by replacing the dark original staircase with a lighter version that has openings to reveal each floor. Photograph by Joe Fletcher. In a San Francisco townhouse remodeled by Feldman Architecture, the main living spaces were isolated from the rest of the house by dark stairs and hallways. In another San Francisco design by Feldman Architecture, metal-screened staircases connect three floors while remaining open enough to allow parents to keep an ear on their three rowdy boys. Elizabeth Roberts Design/Ensemble Architecture of Brooklyn removed a non-original stair on the bottom floor of a Park Slope townhouse and exposed the original brick wall lining the period staircase on the top floor. An ethereal, all-cream staircase by Deborah Berke & Partners in a Manhattan interior renovation.