. Architect and engineer. cept in theatres and amphitheatres were narrow and few in used spiral as well as straight flights. From the fourteenth century in France in great houses the stairwaytook on an appearance of luxury, but it was not until the seventeenthand eighteenth centuries that the most logically beautiful developmentsof it were reached. Nothing is more noble in effect than a great eigh-teenth century staircase with its spacious well in the center whichgives a view from top to bottom. The best seems?to be a hall, centrally located in bighouses, with stairwa
. Architect and engineer. cept in theatres and amphitheatres were narrow and few in used spiral as well as straight flights. From the fourteenth century in France in great houses the stairwaytook on an appearance of luxury, but it was not until the seventeenthand eighteenth centuries that the most logically beautiful developmentsof it were reached. Nothing is more noble in effect than a great eigh-teenth century staircase with its spacious well in the center whichgives a view from top to bottom. The best seems?to be a hall, centrally located in bighouses, with stairway in it or beside it. As it is the one means of com-munication with the upper floors, it should be easily accessible from allparts of the house. Its size should be proportional to the rest of the house and to theuse to which it is put. Charles-Antoine Jombert in his, Architecture The picluri-H ace-mpHnyinK thin article rfUaH*<l by HpocinI iHTmiKwion of thf Archives Photo-Rraphiques, Paris, J2 THE ARCHITECT AND ENGINEER. KIG. »—HOSPITABLE AND MARCH, 1927 1)3
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