Rainbow Flight
In a London house that’s flooded with light, a spiral staircase provides a prismatic path from floor to floor.
Designer Ab Rogers approaches commissions with the élan of a specialty chef, providing clients with what he calls a “minestrone of ideas” in the planning stages, which are then distilled down to the selected essentials. In the case of the Rainbow House, however, one essential ingredient was consistent in each incarnation presented—a multihued spiral staircase that would be visible from nearly everywhere within the west London house. Situating the double-height flight within the tight width available proved extremely challenging. In the end, small divots were made in the wall to allow hands running along the curving banister to continue without interruption. “Design is not complete without movement,” Rogers says of his Technicolor pièce de resistance. “People move around and over and onto it—I want people to engage with their space.”
For more images of the project, please view the extended slideshow.
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It's like a stairway to Gay Heaven! (That's a good thing!)
I've seen the Rainbow House in person. It's inspiring. Like an adult playground! Zooming down a large slide from my bedroom into the kitchen sounds like the perfect way to wake up in the morning!!
Earth colors are not cool; this staircase inverts reality.
Re: the second frame: Is that really a tub in the master bedroom? And what's that weird silver thing?
I agree with Katie, those staircase colors are reversed if they meant to go from earth tones to sky colors as you ascend. Still super cool, though. :)
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