From first sketchto final tread.
We are present at every stage. Nothing is handed over between disciplines, so the staircase that is installed is the staircase that was drawn.
Consultation
We begin with the space. An initial consultation establishes the architectural context, the constraints and what the staircase needs to do within the building.
Concept
Concepts are developed around your brief and the environment they will occupy — form, material and proportion considered together rather than in sequence.
Design
A collaborative design stage. We work closely with clients, and with architects and interior designers where appointed, until every detail is right.
Engineering
The design is resolved into a buildable structure. Engineering precision is the foundation of the practice — nothing is left to the workshop to interpret.
Craft
Components are made by experienced craftspeople and brought together as a complete staircase before it ever reaches your building.
Installation
We are present from the initial consultation to the final installation, so the handover is seamless and the finished staircase matches the drawing exactly.
Built once,assembled twice.
Staircases are dry-assembled in full on the workshop floor and inspected before they are taken apart for delivery. Site installation is a fitting exercise, not a build.
Precision
Every stringer, tread and fixing is set out before a single component is cut.
Material
Timber, steel, stone, glass and hand-formed ironwork, worked by the people who specified them.
Proportion
Rise, going and radius are resolved against the architecture, not a standard.
Craft
Dry-assembled in full, inspected, then taken apart and delivered to site.
Every remarkable spacedeserves a centrepiece.
Talk to SED&A about creating a staircase entirely individual to your project.