Australian Streamline Balustrade from Miami Stainless

Bespoke stair design from Miami Stainless

Australian Streamline Balustrade Solution for New York Designer

It only makes sense that when it came time for Senior Designer Robert Gross, from award-winning design firm Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership, to build a home for his parents he chose New York bespoke stair designer and builder Lunna Designs.

Lee H. Skolnick Architecture + Design Partnership specialises in custom, high-end residential design, and as such Robert is used to a pretty high level of customisation, specifications, quality fabrication and installation work on his projects. Robert fully custom designed the rail system himself, which consisted of stainless steel wire cable, with matte black posts and finished with rift cut white oak handrail.

High-end residential design from Miami Stainless

Lunna Designs' owner Frank Miano met with Robert onsite several times. With meticulous attention to detail Frank, site foreman Ariel Argueta, and the Lunna design team produced the shop drawings, sourced the quality products and used their technical expertise to bring this project to life.

After a couple of small design revisions between the parties the project started to bloom.

"We fabricated the steel posts and wood handrail locally. However, Robert had expressed that he preferred as little visible hardware on the wire systems as possible. We found that a number of companies in the US had hardware suitable for the project however they were bulky in their design. I couldn't find what I was looking for locally, so that is when I started looking overseas and discovered Australian owned hardware company Miami Stainless's range of streamline fittings," Frank explains.

Custom designed rail system from Miami Stainless

Frank explained to the team at Miami Stainless the need for the system to be as streamline and invisible as possible. Miami Stainless created a custom balustrade system to achieve the most streamline appearance possible. For the balustrade throughout the home, Lunna Designs used the Nutsert Swage Stud system on one end of each system and the ProRig Original Design Flip Toggle System on the other. The Flip Toggle system allows the wire to be inserted and fixed to the metal posts with no adjustment hardware visible on the outside. On the staircases, the Nutsert Swage Stud was used with swivel connectors allowing the wires to be installed at any angle required.

ProRig Original Design Flip Toggle System.

The result was an exceptional staircase, and balustrade design and construct. Lunna Designs succeeded in exceeding Roberts expectations in delivering an amazing job for this parents home, expressing to Frank "thank you again for all of the sophisticated work that you did in engineering, detailing, and fabricating the stair and bridge railings for the house that I designed for my parents."

Robert also praised the quality of the Miami Stainless products, stating "your wire products, are crisp, clean and have held up exceptionally well," and added that they "are getting a lot of positive comments about the lightness and sleekness of the railing system."

Miami Stainless would like to thank both Frank Miano from Lunna Designs and Robert Gross from Lee H. Skolnick Architects for their contribution to this article and sharing with us their experiences with our products.

Staircase and balustrade design from Miami Stainless

Project Location: New Jersey, NY, USA.
Staircase & Balustrade Project Budget: $24,000 USD.
Architect: Robert Gross AIA | LEED AP.
Staircase Builder: Lunna Designs.