Project: Queen's Gardens
Publication: Financial Times: How to Spend it
Date: November 2011
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A well-designed stairway can bring other benefits, too. Mike Rundell of Rundell Associates has a particular passion for a beautifully sculpted staircase. Yet for his design of a two-storey apartment in West London, over ground and basement levels, the staircase also became a key part of the strategy to open up the living space and introduce natural light to the basement, via the stairs and a skylight above. Setting the solid-steel staircase - with open risers and oak treads - slightly away from the surrounding walls, along with the use of coloured, pinpointed lighting, plus the rich quality of natural light, allows the crisp form of the stairway to shine out.