Finnish designers Company have created railings for a stairway where the bars at each landing are distorted in a different way.
Called Kaide-taide (Art-handling), the project was commissioned for an eight-storey residential building in Helsinki, Finland.
The steel rods are bent to create places to sit and different view points as residents ascend.
Each railing is painted in a different tone, graduating from grey on the ground floor to white at the top.
More Dezeen stories about Company:
Machabang (August 2008)
Reddress (July 2008)
Top Secrets exhibition (July 2007)
Company's annual report (December 2006)
Here's some more information from the designers:
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Art-Handling
Company was comissioned to create art work for a residential building in Toukoranta, a new housing area in Helsinki, Finland.
Kaide-taide (Art-Handling) bends the railings of the 8 storey high building into new shapes.
These shapes provide places to sit and lean and opens up new views from the stairwell.
Railings are painted in a different tone of grey in each floor creating a gradient from 1st floor dark grey to white in 8th floor.
Material: 16 mm steel rod. Frame 33 mm steel tube.
Design: COMPANY (Aamu Song & Johan Olin)
Client: YIT Corporation
Railings/handles manufactured by: EK-kaide.
Architect: O.P. Jokela Architects
God, what I would do to sit on some of those bars.
Nice one. A simple idea that lets people know care has been taken in design. Injects a little soul into a typically soulless space.
Brilliant! What a nice creative solution to something that is usually very boring…
Cool! and nice bench jaja!
Those do not look comfortable to sit on.
Love it!!!!!
Our very own personal jail.
Well done!
wonderful idea!
Reminds me of Tejo Remy’s playground fences
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/6845/tejo-remy-playground-fence.html
Good job, it’s fun, we design the same thing three years ago for a competition, but we did’t win..so no built.
I’m happy that Company has been able to implement this idea. It’s full of possibilities to develop. Inside and out side.
So Good design!!
reminds me the famous railing at the AA (on the way from back members’ up to the terrace)
Fantastic!
Nothing like talking something boring like a railing and turning it into a talking point.
The sitting shape is old news but still nice and practical. They could use more color though.
lovely work
Remerber the work of french designer Philippe Million from Lyon selected by Paola Antonelli in a Moma exhibition
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/76/200811708_62e2fab2f7_o.jpg
Remember the work of swiss designer Emanuelle Jacques ex Ecal now in Irvine Studio in Milan exhibitionhttp://www.inoutdesigners.ch/pages/projects/config_01/tree_stool.html
The idea of using the rails for sitting is cool, but the rest is done just so many times…. ;)
Nice inspiration!
Wow, seen something similar on the Dutch Design Week this year, “hokjesdenken” (thinking inside the box) from Tess van Hooff.
http://www.design.nl/item/design_academy_eindhoven_graduation_galleries_part_ii
simply wonderful
Small pleasure…I like this. Now it is not just a railing!
Great Idea! Seems to be both pleasing and functional.