Museum Staircase with Converging Perspective, Manchester

30 September 2019 · Manchester

Stone treads and warm timber panelling pull the eye straight up a long interior staircase, the symmetry so clean it reads almost architectural drawing. Stainless steel handrails bracket the frame on both sides, recessed ceiling lights marking the vanishing point at the top. Interior architecture works by the same vocabulary as any street or landscape — leading lines, compression, a subject that earns its own frame.