Most staircases are a product built to your dimensions. A few are not. For those we run a separate studio with its own survey, engineering and project team.
What belongs in the Atelier
Open wells running three storeys with no column. Book-matched stone that has to read continuously from the bottom step to the top. Plaster monoliths where the stair, the wall and the ceiling are one surface. Commissions where the stair is the reason the room exists.
These are not harder versions of a standard stair. They are a different discipline, and trying to run them through a production shop is how they go wrong.
Our order process
Conversation — you send the plan and section, or photographs and a rough floor-to-floor if the drawings do not exist yet. We tell you whether the geometry works before anybody spends money.
Survey — a 3D laser scan of the opening as built, not as drawn. On this kind of work the two are never the same.
Design and engineering — drawings, renderings and a stamped structural design.
Fabrication — steel rolled and welded, stone or timber cut in sequence, finishes applied by hand.
Installation — our own team, with the surrounding plasterwork, joinery and ceiling taken on as one package where that is what the junction needs.
What it costs
Typical commissions run between $260,000 and $2.6 million, depending on geometry, material and how much of the surrounding work we take on. Below about $260,000 we are not the right workshop for the job, and we will say so on the first call rather than the third.
The drawing review is free
Send the plan and section in any format, including a sketch. You get a written note on feasibility, the geometry we would recommend and a realistic budget band, before you commit to anything at all.
Thinking about a staircase?
Send your opening dimensions, floor-to-floor height and a photo. We come back with architectural shop drawings, three realistic 3D renderings and a firm price.