External Staircase, The Arches

Granite treads, and everything around them in white Marmorino Classico.

Our client had some very nice steps and wanted something stunning to finish them off, so we applied a white Marmorino Classico plaster. The end product is absolutely gorgeous.

The treads themselves are granite. What we finished is everything holding them up — the curved concrete spine, the risers and the returns — so the granite reads as granite and the structure carrying it reads as one clean white sweep.

Marmorino Classico is a masonry covering that can be applied on interior and exterior surfaces. It was the perfect choice for these external steps as it creates a rather thick coat offering outdoor resistance, and features a high level of permeability and natural mildew resistance.

It also follows the curve. The staircase sweeps round on a single curved spine, and the plaster runs over the whole of it without a joint or a cladding line to break the shape — something conventional stone cladding cannot do.