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Planium Covers the Stairs with the Elegance of Metal

The staircase is an architectural element of vertical communication

The staircase is an architectural element of vertical communication, that is, a connection between floors at different levels and consequently also an element of spatial continuity. Due to the importance of this element, Planium decided to dedicate unique coatings with exclusive metal textures to it.

The design of this architectural element varies as much as the styles. If contemporary and minimalist, it is ideal for adapting to any architectural style of the environment.

Carefully designed and developed within a broader vision that embraces the entire environment that welcomes it, it becomes a distinctive element strongly characterizing the style and space. Hence the importance of the choice of materials, structural shape, colors.

The shape becomes an expression of research and overcoming of static, in order to create a light structure but with unchanged or superior functional performance. Helical staircases, for example, seem to modulate space on them, combining beauty and aesthetic lightness with the function of connecting rooms. Wide straight stairways within a large space strike us with their elegance.

However, the staircase is 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 sciences, geometries in particular, as well as to the applications deriving from the studies on the golden section...

In a more functionalist architecture, the 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 most 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 reinvigorates an environment denoting it with a workshop style, on models of the fifties and sixties of the twentieth century with brilliant silver lights ...

The Cultural and Historical Value of the Staircase

... and on the other hand Escher inherits this labyrinthine and artistic conception of the staircase from the Italian Piranesi, engraver and architect who inserted this architectural element in his engraving works dedicated to the prisons of the time, that is to say from the 1700s, thus making it also the object of social reflection. An "abstractionist" influence that characterized the imagery of V. Hugo and even the cinematographic one of Ėjzenštejn (the famous staircase scene from The Potemkin battleship, and also Herzog's Fitzcarraldo). The stairs also have a historical character in architecture that goes from Carlo Scarpa to the Lombard Francesco Albini, up to Luigi Vanvitelli (the grand staircase of the Royal Palace of Caserta ...) and connote the whole with taste and refinement ...

Stainless Concrete Texture

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  • Luigi Luca Borrelli