Escaleras

The cream-colored bricks continue to the interior and reinforce and indoor/outdoor living experience. The vintage Stilnovo wall light is from Nicholas & Alistair.

A suspended steel stair adds a sculptural element to the home.

FG House | Bernardes Arquitetura

A ribbon-like spiral staircase leads from the open-plan living area to the second level, where the bedrooms are located.

Leïla works as an industrial designer, and it was a key part of the brief that the materials and details of the interior be carefully considered.

Architect Catherine Milanese wanted to use a single material—fir plywood—for the stringer, the stairs, and the risers, visually integrating the stairway with the wood box that contains the mezzanine level.

Metal stairs attached via wires allow an abundance of light to reach the first floor.

The warm wood furnishings stand out against the sculptural staircase, which references the form of the wall outside.

A stairway of white oak, oiled to impart a matte finish, leads into the apartment. The residents left the design decisions up to K-Studio, only requesting that the house have a "contemporary and calm" feeling.

Embraced by a rocky terrain, the three rectilinear volumes of this house spreads interior spaces vertically over three levels, and horizontally over three enclosures. The residence, built from natural materials—some of which was excavated from the site itself—resembles a cavity within a monolithic stone quarry.

The staircase leads to the lower level, where there's a wine tasting room that doubles as a guest room.

The stair tower is 10 feet wide by 30 feet tall.

Downstairs, a Knoll Barcelona chair joins a Piuma coffee table by Antonio Citterio for Flexform.

The stairwell is the bright core of the house. To keep an open feeling, and costs down, it zigzags its way up. Inexpensive metal railings are set inside and painted the same red to disappear into the stairwell.

Glass panels brighten up and modernize the interiors.