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For those of you who dislike working to shop drawings you may be interested to know that the stairs and balcony were almost entirely free form. Each panel has a basic round bar outline which is loose enough that it can be bent to follow changing curves and slopes. This outline is actually two outlines that are slightly out of sync ... thus providing extra lines in the design. All the infill pieces were made loosely to five basic shapes and were threaded into place between the two outer layers on site.

This approach enabled me to sculpt everything to the site and maintain a degree of symmetry without being restrained.

The structure of the stairs was a bit more demanding ... I used a bundle of nine 25 mm box sections and forged and bent them together ..... the result was a light weight yet extremely strong stringer which is attractive enough to be left exposed.

The wooden stairs are the bases for marble treads and risers.

Where to bend next ... www.metalgarden.ca