Grand Foyer Staircase — Bold Iron Balustrade
Most balustrades try to disappear. This one is the centerpiece of the foyer: a curved matte black handrail that starts in a wrapped volute over the bottom step and sweeps the full run, filled with elongated loop-style iron balusters and anchored by turned black newel posts. Against the white wainscoting on the stair wall and the two-story windows, the black-on-white geometry reads from the front door like a piece of ironwork sculpture.
It was installed during new construction, working around the finish schedule — the photos show the floors still in protection paper. Curved rail work is the hard end of stair carpentry: the rail has to flow through the turn in one continuous line, and every loop baluster has to land plumb inside it. Worth enlarging the second photo for the volute alone.
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