The staircase is an architectural element of vertical communication ... but also an abstract idea that refers to symbols and meanings. If we consider the Dutch Escher, who loved to define himself as a mathematician rather than an artist, we find in his lithographs and woodcuts projects dedicated to scales that contain abstract references to science, geometry in particular, as well as to the applications deriving from studies on the golden section...
In a more functionalist architecture, stairs are the absolute protagonists of a context and characterize it like flooring, cladding and furniture. #planium covers indoor staircases with its metals, playing with colors and with the multiple possibilities that its textures reveal, thus defining different scenarios: from the red note of Copper to its equally warm alloy, Brass, for "sunny" colors, and even more so with the steels, different from each other but united by the fact that they have a great resistance, so as to be able to cover the stairs without problems concerning wear. Different Steels those belonging to the #planium collections, which distinguishes them according to the treatments. The classic Stainless Steel that will refer to an Industrial setting, in the post-war New York style; the more elaborate Embossed Steel, with a rough and even artistic character, and steels with completely different colors including the dark and shady Calamine, Steel Oxide between Aviation Blue and Anthracite and again the Oxidized Steel, with a fascinating color halfway between cold and warm tones, brown in appearance but containing shades of gray. Then there is a particular Steel, Stainless Concrete, which invigorates an environment denoting it with a workshop style, on models from the 1950s and 1960s with brilliant silver lights ...
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