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Title: Architect and engineer
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture Architecture Architecture Building
Publisher: San Francisco : Architect and Engineer, Inc
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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PIG. 7—AN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY STAIR RAIL MARCH, 1927 97
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FIG. 8—ANOTHKK VIEW OF EIGHTEKNTH CENTUKY KAIL 9g THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER Moderne 1764. says that the least width a stairway can have is fourfeet which dimension he has established to allow two people to pass oneanother without being inconvenienced. We have cut down considerablyhis noble proportions, but we still can see his logic and would probablyfollow his example were it not for the necessity of economy. As to the form, the more sober it is the better. In the middle agesthe stairway was almost invariably round. Some of the later ones wereextremely monumental and beautiful: witness Chambord, and Blois.But they are never equal in effect of spaciousness to the great openstairway of later date. Light equally distributed is absolutely essential. In fact thereshould be more in the stairs than in any other part of the house, be-cause there is more danger of falling. There should be as much lighton the flights as on the landings, and it should come preferably frommore than one source

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