Miraculous Staircase

[tonyfoale]

Fantastic. There is a book that I would dearly love to have called 'Victorian Engineering' which goes in depth into the why, the how, the aesthetics and the underlying thought processes behind all these glamorous works of art that still endure today.
FFF was not only a design concept built into everything but things had to look and feel good as well. Human ergonomics became a big thing at this time too due to increasing mechanisation. People built structures and machinery to last as they were expensive. The concept of planned obsolescence was not yet conceived.

I have that book. It is quite interesting.