Beautiful staircase railing looks like a tree

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By Sean Michael Ragan
Posted 2010/03/24 @ 2:50 pm
Category Energy, Furniture, Science

It’s not, unfortunately, actually made of wood. Details are scanty, but I suspect wrought iron. It’s the work of Florida metalsmiths Imagination in Metals. [via Design You Trust]

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5 Responses to Beautiful staircase railing looks like a tree

pault on March 24th, 2010 at 7:51 pm said:

Perhaps I’m misled, but it strikes me that using iron for the exact same design is a) safer, b) not killing trees (ok, I don’t have the numbers to really attest to the carbon footprint of ironwork vs. woodwork) and c) will last longer.

Idk, just a question.

Either way it’s inspiring.

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- Sean Michael Ragan on March 24th, 2010 at 9:22 pm said:
  
  I think you’re right on all counts. An amazing piece of work, regardless of the material. And it would be ridiculously hard to do in wood. It’s just that, when I first saw the photo, I thought for a moment that they had actually trained a live hardwood tree to grow into the right shape for their railing over the course of many years, then cut it down and installed it. Which, you have to admit, would have been spectacularly awesome. Didn’t mean to detract from what these ironsmiths have done, though. It is also spectacularly awesome.
  
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SKR on March 24th, 2010 at 8:42 pm said:

Unfortunately, that is so not to code.

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Spades on March 25th, 2010 at 3:37 am said:

Is it only me (because I have a toddler who’s trying to walk) or are the pointy bits (especially the one above the two steps on the bottom) a thing you’d rather not have in a staircase?

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Mattyfu! on March 25th, 2010 at 5:42 pm said:

Maybe it’s in fact made of NERF?

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