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@JDraper4 ай бұрын
Try out the stairs for yourself here: bit.ly/49bGOa7
@loydarayalarosado2494 ай бұрын
I thought they had been designed for an old patron. I had not considered the skirts.
@Michael_Hester4 ай бұрын
The back end of the opera! That is so cool😮 Is it weird that I saw the steps and thought of Victorian dresses as a reason for the step height, but I didn't think of Queen Victoria herself. Watching you descend the stairs with the flourish at the end.😂 Brilliant!
@philrod14 ай бұрын
Looks like you had fun filming this 😃
@ssgtmole86104 ай бұрын
The Winchester House of Mystery has similar stairs. Mrs. Winchester was short as well. You can see where the risers were modified from normal height to reduced height. She also had an elevator installed. She was the widow of the Winchester rifle manufacturer. Her moving from the east coast to California meant that she could legally own her own fortune and property instead of having to turn it over to a husband if she had remarried.
@jennym1274 ай бұрын
I feel like this is common in large theatres. Ive seen a few theatres with these shallow stairs
@brianharris72434 ай бұрын
My old Dad(a builder) always said his two favourite aspects of Victorian buildings were staircases and drains!
@Brasswatchman4 ай бұрын
Drains?
@namastezen33004 ай бұрын
@@Brasswatchmanthere's a story in that
@Shonie114 ай бұрын
What does your young dad say?
@saym0.04 ай бұрын
what about your new dad?
@Summer-jy1my4 ай бұрын
I also want to hear about the drains!
@kirstenkremer-yq6yc4 ай бұрын
I mean, the lady in question was the ruling queen, that seems like the prime candidate to pay attention to.
@demo28234 ай бұрын
The lady in question didn't have decent period products. Not even some nicer cloth linings. She had to leave the room and 'change her clothes' every few hours, beginning the stereotype that women are always changing their outfits.
@vulpes70794 ай бұрын
Reigning*
@Tvianne4 ай бұрын
@@demo2823 yes, flax didn't exist yet.
@piney45624 ай бұрын
@Tvianne What on earth are you talking about? Flax is a plant, its been around forever. Its also been being turned into linen, a fabric used to make clothes, by humans for give or take, 10000 years. (Yes, ten thousand). So unless flax means something else, I have a hunch you might be wrong.
@Tvianne4 ай бұрын
@@piney4562 Ohhhh, really? are you sure? suresuresure?🙄 so, if you're familiar with flax and linen, please educate yoursef before you spout nonsense, would you? if you're up to it, google 'Abby Cox period'. It's about 18th century period management (with also 'experimental archeology'), a wopping hundred years early, but I think it would still be relevant (considering I have some of my mother's still brand new linen pads, yep, still relevant). Cheers. PS: ops, you're not the genius I was addressing. That's what you get when add your 2cents to a discussion without checking the entire conversation. To be clear: I was being sarcastic toward a very misguided person. Have a nice day.
@onelegout4 ай бұрын
The quality of your shorts is superb. Just enough detail to pass on knowledge, without being boring, accompanied by funny video. Loving it.
@dsracoon4 ай бұрын
And also the effort!
@tysonnguyen91704 ай бұрын
Agreed
@Mushroom321-4 ай бұрын
Yes!!!!😮😮😮😊😊😊
@scottscouter10654 ай бұрын
AND she's a beauty for sure!
@aeking294 ай бұрын
I 100% agree...her shorts are amazing! Plus, love the boots she's got on
@Arbidarb4 ай бұрын
The Winchester Mystery House has a staircase that's so shallow that it's practically a ramp. It was made that way to accommodate Mrs. Winchester in her old age. I wonder now if it was made that way in part so she wouldn't have to bother with her skirts.
@onbearfeet4 ай бұрын
She was also a rather short woman (under 5 feet tall, iirc) with arthritis, so lifting her feet high or stepping down a long way would have been painful. The skirts could have been a factor, though!
@randilevson95474 ай бұрын
The Winchester Mystery House is fascinating. Glad to see someone else knows about it.
@divalea4 ай бұрын
I immediately thought of the Winchester and those stairs! I went with my baby daughter, I carried her, and I effing loved those stairs. So much easier to negotiate.
@maatcrook69104 ай бұрын
This is what came to mind for me too! Everything y’all said is what I remember the tour guide saying about the low risers.
@abyrupus4 ай бұрын
Came here to say this too, the stairs and passageways are very short and narrow because of her personal stature. Also there are many false staircases to confuse ghosts who followed her, but that's another story, lol.
@LaDivinaLover4 ай бұрын
Accessibility with shallow stairs is awesome. For skirts or people with mobility issues. All steps should still be like that. Lol
@sheepewe45054 ай бұрын
I love how ladies' fashion throughout the centuries has disabled women's bodies. Skirts (not just the long and bulky historical types, but also mini- and pencil skirts), high heels, long fingernails etc. Bound feet are the most extreme example
@s.f.nightingale17354 ай бұрын
There is actually a fictitious city in a game that has no stairs in it. It's one of the few places with advanced technology, and one of the favored sports is roller derby, so the city is designed for wheels.
@terranovarubacha54734 ай бұрын
@@sheepewe4505 Neck stretching rings are also super extreme
@cremebrulee47594 ай бұрын
I agree. It's good for people as they get older, too. They do take more space, though.
@natalyn1394 ай бұрын
my thought exactly! i have some mobility issues and stairs like these are so much easier to walk up and down.
@RuthBhmand4 ай бұрын
My house has a narrow steep staircase, cause I’m a low class girl in a 100 y old ordinary house. Upper classes just have more space, money, etc. I’m pretty sure some French palaces from 1600’s had extra wide doors for elaborate dresses.
@Abdul-Akeem_Akinloye4 ай бұрын
@@grace52775Sheesh. We're all screwed.
@jenniferpearce10524 ай бұрын
@@grace52775But a house 100 years ago would have narrower and steeper staircases than what's required by code now. You win some; you lose some.
@TheSuzberry4 ай бұрын
Or those double doors that can be opened on both sides to allow wide skirts.
@TheSuzberry4 ай бұрын
@@grace52775- Do not romanticize builders in the past. They cut every corner they could - unless building for a specific rich person. Building codes were put in place to make sure there were minimum standards. I lived in a late 19th century house. My husband had to completely rebuild it to make it livable.
@RuthBhmand4 ай бұрын
@@TheSuzberry yes, early 20’century houses didn’t have electricity, indoor lavatory, radiators or double glazing. Fireplaces for heating, CO right into your bedroom. Most of us absolutely refuse timetravel, I like this century.
@Valkyrie90004 ай бұрын
Ngl, the idea that high-class Victorian were absolutely eating it on stairs enough that they had to engineer around it is very, very funny to imagine
@Valkyrie90004 ай бұрын
Imagine the spectacle - the absolute kerfuffle - of a monarch wearing 75 pounds of hoop skirt absolutely beefing it down a flight of stairs
@WitchKing-Of-Angmar4 ай бұрын
@@Valkyrie9000 Your slang is unwelcome.
@jakejohnson13784 ай бұрын
As an architect, there are many reasons for this. The drama of a larger staircase in palatial buildings was important, people were on average much shorter, there were no lifts back then so elderly and fatigued people needed shallower steps, and they also were wide with long treads because they were places to socialize at events. Fashion could have been a part of it but there are many fictional benefits.
@captaincube1324 ай бұрын
I know you meant "functional benefits" since you just listed several, but you typed "fictional benefits" and I'm tickled by the idea that an architect would consider those too. "If a work of fiction was to feature this very handsome building, might the astute reader recognise the place by description of the staircases? Might I then achieve renown and publicity and wider clientele, perhaps at Court where they read such things? Worth a try!"
@jakejohnson13784 ай бұрын
@@captaincube132 haha yup, you're right
@Alfonso1620084 ай бұрын
@@captaincube132as for me, when I read "fictional benefits" my mind went a different route, and thought of benefits that don't really exist, like, idk, "this staircase let goblins climb up to the top floor more easily", or something like that 😂😂
@Stephen-Fox4 ай бұрын
@@Alfonso162008Whereas I went to 'how will this architectural feature help me break out of writers block and flights of procrastination'
@xJana333x4 ай бұрын
In an old house in Monschau, Germany, they also had grooves in the end of the stair railing so that ladies could feel when the stairs were ending.
@cremebrulee47594 ай бұрын
Great idea!
@bhelliom32 ай бұрын
cool shit
@Hollyberrystreats2 ай бұрын
Also helpful for the visually impaired!
@TheMichaelKillen4 ай бұрын
History. Maths! ARCHITECTURE!? This video has EVERYTHING.
@katebowers81074 ай бұрын
The building designed to hold the US Pension Bureau in 1887, 32 years after the end of the US Civil War, was built with very shallow staircases to accommodate disabled veterans. (Pensions were chiefly for veterans.) It is now the National Building Museum, a very fitting use for a fascinating building.
@24680kong2 ай бұрын
Back when the government cared about veterans. Nowdays they just care about money.
@dave2.0774 ай бұрын
she obveously had so much fun going down the stairs in that dress
@josephlongbone42554 ай бұрын
Parents house is a semi detached half of a grand old farmhouse dating back to 1666, and our neighbours have a pidley little staircase for the servants, whereas we have a grand wide staircase you to sweep down in your ball gown and catch a coach into town. We also found a rack of bells in the loft while fitting insulation which you could ring for servants, and our "shed" is a two-storey bothey with room for pigs downstairs and farm labourers upstairs.
@SailorYuki4 ай бұрын
The grand stairs at Stockholm City Hall, where the Nobel Banquet is held, has really shallow steps. It's designed so that elegant ladies, with their fancy dresses, look elegant and fancy walking down them. Gender specific architecture just to make the ladies look pretty.
@linneapetersson95204 ай бұрын
I've heard the architect had his wife test out modles of the different staircase designs so he was sure that the stairs would be perfect.
@saym0.04 ай бұрын
its interesting because i always think of older staircases as steeper, though i guess its most likely a class thing
@SAOS4513164 ай бұрын
It's very much about class. Compare the different staircases for guests and for servants in an old manor and it's very apparent! This staircase is in a very fancy venue used by royalty so it gets the most luxurious steps. Any fancier and it would be a ramp lol.
@spankeyfish4 ай бұрын
@@SAOS451316 I used to live in a large house that was built in 1899 which was large enough to have a couple of rooms in the attic for servants. The ground and 1st floor stairs (apart from the bannister) were exactly like the ones in this vid but the cellar and attic stairs were like what you get in a mill worker's terrace in the same town.
@brs6904 ай бұрын
Makes me think of horse stairs... I spent a lot of time in the cavalry so I used to walk them a lot, just short and wide enough that a person can't take a propper step.
@ellengrace46094 ай бұрын
They made stairs for horses?
@johnbaker12564 ай бұрын
@@ellengrace4609 Makes it easier to get over those hurdles.
@Levacque4 ай бұрын
@@ellengrace4609yep, or more specifically, they made stairs for important men who wanted to ride their horse somewhere that horses probably shouldn't go, or just in the streets of very hilly towns 😂 they're pretty neat, they have a low rise and a very wide/deep step, and normally the wide step is also sloped very gently so that you gain a little extra height without making it hard for the horses.
@ellengrace46094 ай бұрын
@@Levacque interesting! Thanks for the reply! 😁
@brookebaker98674 ай бұрын
The stairs at.the Winchester Mystery House in California are shallow like this. They were also built in the Victorian Era for a woman who was only 4' 11" so the dress theory makes sense. On the other hand, the stairs in the Betsy Ross house are so steep that getting up them in modern clothing isnt easy, I have no idea how a woman in a full length gown did it every day.
@Levacque4 ай бұрын
People literally died on those tall, narrow stairs. Imagine you're a servant with your skirts, AND your arms are full because they better be full because you're working and you gotta stay busy. You can't see your feet, or the steps, and you can't hold up the skirts or onto the balustrade. Like, the reason why there were people doing mathematic equations on stair dimensions was because it became a minor public health crisis in England.
@brookebaker98674 ай бұрын
@@Levacque agreed. I recently discovered an ancestor that fell down the steep stairs in her uncles general store and spent the next couple of years crippled, only walking by holding on the back of a chair and pushing it around like a walker, until she died around 1918 at about age 40.
@abyrupus4 ай бұрын
There were other calculations for staircase design in the Winchester House, for example, to confuse the ghosts that followed her around. But that's another story.
@brookebaker98674 ай бұрын
@@abyrupus True, there were odd staircases to confuse the spirits Mrs. Winchester believed were following her. However, there were also mostly normal ones made for her use that had super shallow steps.
@stephgreen30704 ай бұрын
Friends and I rented a tiny old home for a weekend and the stairs to the second floor were closer to a ladder. It was a devilish time trying to lug my big weekender bag up, and even worse trying to get it back down without toppling all the way to the bottom.
@bregowego4 ай бұрын
As an interior designer who spends a lot of time calculating stairs .. yes. I love it. No notes!
@aleisterlavey97164 ай бұрын
I thought of a stair, no step is the same height and some are loose from time to time, but not always. I would call them " Darwins Curse" 😂
@xtrff20244 ай бұрын
Architect here. There are indeed calculations made when designing this aspect of a staircase. They take into consideration the length of a person’s stride. But it’s based on a man’s proportions usually, so this is refreshing. You can safely go up or down stairs if all of the steps are the same height and width. Otherwise it can get tricky. 1 cm off and people start stumbling. 😂
@xtrff20244 ай бұрын
Comment: the most comfortable stairs I’ve ever climbed are in the paimio hospital designed by Aalto, in Finland. They’re soooooooo easy to climb for patients. Beautiful.
@DFarbklecks4 ай бұрын
I was at Goethe's House in Weimar Germany. That man had insanely shallow steps on his stairs. To be fair though, he rented the place. It was built around 70 years before he moved in if I remember correctly
@franktheexpertstrenchclub90254 ай бұрын
The fanciful walk was the best
@gerbilisntalive4 ай бұрын
even the most specific and random details about England's history you can make it sounds so interesting!! i'm not even from a english speaking country and i want to learn more 😂😂
@finuriae4 ай бұрын
Hi J, love your channel! I noticed that the stairs next to Scarborough's cliff lift were weirdly shallow, (It's a weird thing for me to remember, haven't been there in years) they were easy to go down, but a pain in the neck to go up, being used to modern standard step height. This totally would explain it, I expect people would likely have walked down, then taken the lift back up afterwards. The Scarborough Grand Hotel is at the top, it was built in a V-shape in honour of queen Victoria (I don't know if she ever visited) but the shallow steps would definitely make sense for long skirts!
@mrsmmoose67754 ай бұрын
Ohh that's the same in the Isle of Wight. Interesting!
@SirSaladAss4 ай бұрын
On an opposite note, I remember the Coliseum steps being extra high as a kid. It might just have been me being a child, but my house stairs were and are standard-issue stairs, and I felt the difference. I wonder if steps actually did use to be higher (and more inconvenient) a millennium or two ago.
@Crustee04 ай бұрын
For indoors most likely not as high because the ones that can afford to have multi-floor buildings are rich ones and they wont like inconvenient staircases. For Colosseum i would guess because people rarely come into the building (only during events) so a minor inconvenience is not really an issue. On the other hand defense structures like castle walls and forts have very uncomfy stairs of different heights and maybe even shapes (im not very into it so cmiiw) so when invaders come in they arent used to it and might stumble or need to pay attention to their feet while also fighting against the defenders. The defenders are used to the stairs by patrolling their own place, so while its uncomfy for them its not a disadvantage.
@jenniferpearce10524 ай бұрын
The ones at the Coliseum were probably built extra steep to match with the seating slope, set so people could see. Just like in a modern theater or stadium. In addition, the stairs are probably worn.
@AnnaCMeyer4 ай бұрын
There used to be a department store one town over that had the nicest stairs to climb. They were not fatiguing to climb, at all, even after the three flights from bottom to top. They were also wide enough to allow large pieces of furniture to be manœuvered through the landings.
@lydiacc4 ай бұрын
These steps are also a lot easier to climb for folk with certain kinds of mobility issues! An unintended benefit.
@bessie86124 ай бұрын
That Dress pass by transition was awesome!
@mcfixer95034 ай бұрын
take a look at steps in most of prague, also quite shallow
@katebowers81074 ай бұрын
You have achieved peak thumbnail.
@nancyphillips20494 ай бұрын
You're so fabulously dramatic. Love the efforts you put into your videos.
@KitagumaIgen4 ай бұрын
That was an interesting take on stairs! I know that the height and width of steps should have some sensible relation for the stair to be "comfortably walked" (even in pants), and if it is too far off the stairs become bad. The worst I've encountered are the outdoor stairs at the Communications Systems Lab at Lancaster University, it was unwalkable.
@asterismos54514 ай бұрын
I read a book that featured a detail that's apparently accurate to medieval Irish castles: they'd sometimes have stairs of all different heights within a single staircase so people who lived there and used the stairs every single day were just used to them and could go up and down normally but invaders would be massively slowed down tripping on them the whole time and be put at a major disadvantage for storming the castles.
@nilawarriorprincess4 ай бұрын
Learning about architecture designed to accommodate fashion was my favorite part of my History of Costume class. It was fascinating!
@user-kx3yv9ll4i4 ай бұрын
It’s so nice to see the production quality go up and I hope we get more positive changes in the future
@jotarodidyoubustthisnut4 ай бұрын
It’s also helpful if you’re elderly with mobility issues and it causes you to take smaller steps which creates a graceful floating effect in big floor length skirts
@celeri64974 ай бұрын
as someone who wears really long skirts and has mobility and joint issues, low wide stairs have always been my favourites! much less strain to climb
@AndrewMalovrh4 ай бұрын
I find it really cool where you not only talk about history, but you live a lot of it too by having the fashion of some of that history.
@toforgetisagem81452 ай бұрын
stairs as shallow and wide as these are so lovely. They make climbing them so easy. No strain on the thighs.
@321girlwantstohavefun4 ай бұрын
That dress looks beautiful on you as well!!! Those stairs look very comfortable to walk up as well
@simonesmit67084 ай бұрын
I lived in an Victorian era house from age 2 till 8. It had 2 staircases. One directly above the other. And while made of polished wood the steps were just as shallow. They were also about 7 feet wide. And the sliding races we had on rainy days kept us occupied for hours. Loved that house even though it was cold and damp.
@divalea4 ай бұрын
At The Getty in LA, the big outdoor area leading into the main building has shallow steps. When I visited, I was using a cane, and those steps were so helpful. They also felt welcoming.
@amyjanefrater14474 ай бұрын
You look lovely in the gown, floating on the stairs. Bravo.
@maryconder71003 ай бұрын
That's really helpful, when stationed in Germany we were often confused when touring historic places. Makes so much more sense now
@ccityplanner12174 ай бұрын
Vienna has an obsession with shallow staircases. Many of the underground stations have them.
@dieda11623 ай бұрын
The stairs in Goethe's house in Weimar quite narrow as well. He was involved in the design process of his house and he was very particular about the stairs. He wanted them to be very comfortable to climb so visitors wouldn't be exhausted. I really appreciate the idea. The stairs are actually pretty comfortable to climb. I wish more stairs were designed with this in mind. But I guess comfortable stairs probably take up more space.
@a.b.creator4 ай бұрын
Love your boots in the beginning! That whole first outfit is awesome. Thank you so much for years of informative and interesting content !
@ResidentialYenta4 ай бұрын
ADORE the fabric on the stairs. 😍
@batbee74274 ай бұрын
Ahhhhh. Thanks for explaining Texas architecture. Tiny steps everywhere for old buildings and parks.
@muscledavis54342 ай бұрын
Staircases are their own subject and one could study it their entire life. Just like entrances. Roofs. Balconies. I love it!
@vainpiers4 ай бұрын
Ooooo this is so strange. I work there backstage XD
@Lin-17854 ай бұрын
I love when different pieces of culture influence each other like this, and there it is for us to see.
@MochiTheAxolotl693 ай бұрын
As a disabled person, I LOVE low stairs. Wayyyy less stress on your knees!
@SeliahK4 ай бұрын
This one page makes me want to visit England SO much. LOL.
@deborahborlase71004 ай бұрын
That gown and cape are AMAZING!!!!!
@elianacolina26912 ай бұрын
As an architect I am now obsessed with this and will be spiraling into research on more examples of this
@karmicscope52593 ай бұрын
The Winchester Mystery House has steps even lower & wider throughout the mansion. Sarah Winchester was very small in stature & had these built. I love those steps so much. They were the easiest I’d ever climbed & I felt so stable & secure on the larger platform of each step. They’re great!
@yorgunsamuray4 ай бұрын
I work at a travel agency, mostly dealing with Japanese tourists. There were occasions that the operator in Japan demanding the height of the tour buses’ stairs, which is understandable since there are a lot of elderly people joining these tours in Japan, these should be considered. I remember the height of the bathtub and the depth inside it was asked. Although it can be time-consuming and frustrating, for the reason above, really understandable.
@Ramtamtama4 ай бұрын
It's very rare to see someone ascend and descend stairs with such grace
@pattiehicks76734 ай бұрын
I love the costumes you wear in the videos! Today, though, I want to shout out to your personal fashion ascetic. Your outfit in this video is just so cool. All your outtfits are pretty cool. This one just seems extra appealing to me today.
@avivaadler42534 ай бұрын
It's 5 AM in Israel, and I'm having my first coffee before work. And I really love your content! Thank you!
@imaginillyar35724 ай бұрын
Watching you on the stairs in your oh-so-big skirts made my day :)
@CommadoreLizzy4 ай бұрын
On a rough day, the vicarious happiness I experience through your enjoyment of wearing historical garb in an historical situation elucidating on the history thereof... maybe it leads to further research on my part, or maybe just a smile, but your content is always welcome and welcomed.
@happy_with_my_planner4 ай бұрын
The main stair in the Blue Hall at Stockholm City Hall is also designed in a way that everyone descending would look beautiful. If you can; watch the banquet of the Nobel prize event on December 10th when all royals, laureates and politicians enter the hall. It’s beautiful!
@Magic_beans_4 ай бұрын
Once again you display an impressive commitment to costuming.
@amandah28664 ай бұрын
That makes sense. It's really cool that skirts were factored in.
@rebeccamd79034 ай бұрын
As someone who’s short with a bad knee, shallow steps are a blessing!!!
@koyotestudios41824 ай бұрын
I'm a UX UI design student And part of our homework every week is finding something with good or bad design to present. Found my design for the week. It's actually really ingenious.
@TheRegisteredNerd2 ай бұрын
As a Renaissance Festival worker in the US, I can say this would definitely be helpful at events we plan!
@illustriouschin4 ай бұрын
Those steps look so soft and squishy.
@CrimsonFox363 ай бұрын
Architects are always thinking one step ahead
@jackukridge53814 ай бұрын
I work at an old hall, the staircase starts huge and gets progressively smaller as it goes up, they used to tell people it was so dresses flowed out behind you but in fact it was to make the staircase look slightly bigger and more impressive.
@MewWolf54 ай бұрын
In this era of pants, I find shallower steps actually make my legs more tired. But I can see how it would help in that era, as you demonstrated.
@Party-parade4 ай бұрын
Gosh i love stairs like these, they always make it so much easier to walk up (im disabled)
@mattmatthews54143 ай бұрын
I’ve been abstaining from posting this due to wanting to keep it civil, but holy crap are you just freaking adorable!
@TheAdambright4 ай бұрын
I love when your notifications pop up! They make me smile every time…can’t wait to book a tour.
@margaretdevery65473 ай бұрын
We stayed at an apartment building opposite Little Queens in Lyndhurst. Some parts of the building are several hundred years old, showing very low, widened doors to accommodate the wide 17th century pannier bustles. So interesting!
@BlackOrderAlchemist4 ай бұрын
Reminds me of the short staircase steps in the Winchester Mansion. Those were so short because old lady Winchester had arthritis and couldn't step up very high at all.
@vanessahenderson94344 ай бұрын
I love old buildings since I usually wear long skirts. I love flouncing down stairs with a skirt.
@MM-ve7rr4 ай бұрын
I actually love that. Short steps make a lot of sense to me.
@Bodya_CN4 ай бұрын
Your smile at the end is just awww ❤
@lilytaylor47603 ай бұрын
My old house had this kind of stairs. Which was really helpful when I wore heels
@michaelprokop6454 ай бұрын
in Newport, Rhode Island there is a Gilded Age Mansion called the Breakers that was built by the Vanderbilts. The Grand Staircase is the opposite of this. The stairs are very tall and deep. So, when the woman of the home walks down the stairs to make an entrance, it looks like she glides.
@mnutsch814 ай бұрын
The Revolutionary War Era houses on the east coast of the US frequently have stairs like these as well
@jen305514 ай бұрын
During a tour at the Winchester house, the guide said that Sarah, quite short at only 4'10", had low rise stairs were put in to help her with her arthritis. Being on the shorter side with joint problems, I found myself wishing all stairs were like that.
@suirall4 ай бұрын
i've never seen someone so happy to use a staircase
@d.l.d.l.81404 ай бұрын
The recessed bottoms of the risers make a beautiful step, you don’t see them anymore.
@nixand_brennt3 ай бұрын
Reminds me of the stairs in the Winchester house in the US. Very shallow steps that switched back multiple times as a mobility solution for an elderly woman.
@mawi41129 күн бұрын
i once went on a trip with my old orchestra, the place where we practiced was on the upper floors of an old estate house, i tripped so much
@sesfilmsllc4 ай бұрын
That transition!!!!
@jeffreysharp8526Ай бұрын
Okay, thanks for this video. Perhaps, this explains the grand staircase at the residence of the Prince Bishop in Wurzburg am Main, in Germany. The steps are really short and quite deep; perhaps, for the ladies' dresses or, the Bishop's robes. Thanks again for your work.
@onewitxhcoven52724 ай бұрын
Literally was at a library today, and it had really shallow steps and just put it down to the building “being old” but now I know why it “being old” equates to it having shallow steps!
@traceyc1304 ай бұрын
As I get older I realize it’s better for you back to have the rise lower. Excuse me now as I have an appointment with my physiotherapist 😊
@LadyVineXIII4 ай бұрын
I love when they think of the users when building the stairs.
@aprilneel23694 ай бұрын
I enjoy your videos so much! Keep them coming, please!
@donnaleach81192 ай бұрын
As someone dealing with MS, I always appreciate shallow steps in historical buildings
@alexk30034 ай бұрын
Your channel is so interesting, thanks!
@thomaslgrice4 ай бұрын
Brings to mind the Atlanta architect, John Portman who donned a skirt in a demonstration to quell criticism that his glass staircase would put ladies in danger of exposing themselves. Also, the design function in the height of the step evokes Michelangelo's horse steps near the Forum in Rome.
@johndododoe14113 ай бұрын
pedestrian tunnels around Copenhagen have staircases that are very shallow, with each step being the height of a sidewalk/pavement curb and up to half a meter wide, with the width of a the staircase being like a road lane, but with a central railing to prevent cars from chasing people down the stairs .
@timarheit72724 ай бұрын
My high school had short steps in the stairwells at one end of the building. Turns out, when it was first built, it housed all grades from kindergarten through 12th and the rooms used for kindergarten and the lower grades were nearest the stairwells with short steps.