Scale-Stairs. Vol. 2
Edizioni L'Archivolto
Italian and English Text.
Milano, 2006; bound, pp. 200, 280 col. ill., cm 23x30.
(Zoom).
series: Zoom
ISBN: 88-7685-164-X
- EAN13: 9788876851643
Subject: Design
Period: 1960- Contemporary Period
Places: Italy
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Weight: 1.56 kg
This book provides a sequel to the popular first issue devoted to staircases, with a completely new array of designs that demonstrate this particular feature's seemingly inexhaustible capacity to stimulate the architecture's creative drive. The current availability of high-performance materials and increasingly sophisticated technology have entailed designs of considerable visual impact and greater attention to the details, such to the point that in many cases the staircase has a direct impact on the overall design of the domestic interiors or public space that hosts it, owing to its expressive force and outstanding compositional characteristics