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Michael P. Dillon. Traditional French style rail. This iron is painted
a dull black with gold leaf accents, and has a natural hand rubbed
steel cap. Stair Rail is 63' long with an additional 55' continuous
rail and two 4' balconies. Photos, Max Birnkammer.
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Michael Dillon's French style staircase uses S curves
in reverse positions to create an inverted heart shape with extra
scrollwork within each large shape. The gold acanthus leaves are
a French motif ut the staircase also has a "slight lean toward
Gothic," says Dillon. After the drawings were accepted, a wood
template was made by a master stair building to aid the stone carver
in his construction of the limestone curb and layout of the treads.
Dillon explains, "I was able to use this template to bend my
top and bottom rails. These frames were built on site and brought
back to the shop to fill in the design. Some areas of the design
are floating attached by 3/4" balls." The newel panel
consists of eleven bars arranged in the vertical plane and a decorative
"D" for the name of the house. Two four-foot balconies
and seven panels are mechanically fastened together to complete
the rail. The finish is painted dull black with gold leaf accents
and the steel cap is natural hand rubbed. The project took six months
and over 500 hours to complete.
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