Stairways to Heaven: Functional, Beautiful, and Mesmerizing Staircases

eauty can be found, easily, all around us and in so many different forms―natural or human made. If we stop but for a second, pull our mind from the past and what we should have done or the future to what we plan to do, the beauty, even in simple things, will be so evident around us. In being present, in the moment, one becomes an observer of the world and the many ways it is beautiful.


Picard and Bacot have curated, in this book, human-made beauty, real-world vignettes of spiral staircases,from around the world - from San Diego, California to Riga, Latvia to the Vatican City to Phnom Penh, Vietnam. Of course, these staircases are first functional, then beautiful, and also reflective of changes in epochs, styles, cultures, and aesthetics.

If we stop but for a second, pull our mind from the past and what we should have done or the future to what we plan to do, the beauty, even in simple things, will be so evident around us. In being present, in the moment, one becomes an observer of the world and the many ways it is beautiful. (Francois Picard and Geneva Bacot Stairways to Heaven)