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Kaide-taide by Company
Finnish designers Company have created railings for a stairway where the bars at each landing are distorted in a different way.
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Called Kaide-taide (Art-handling), the project was commissioned for an eight-storey residential building in Helsinki, Finland.
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The steel rods are bent to create places to sit and different view points as residents ascend.
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Each railing is painted in a different tone, graduating from grey on the ground floor to white at the top.
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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.
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Kaide-taide (Art-Handling) bends the railings of the 8 storey high building into new shapes.
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These shapes provide places to sit and lean and opens up new views from the stairwell.
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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.
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Material: 16 mm steel rod. Frame 33 mm steel tube.
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Design: COMPANY (Aamu Song & Johan Olin)
Client: YIT Corporation
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Railings/handles manufactured by: EK-kaide.
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Architect: O.P. Jokela Architects
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