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- Imperial_staircase abstract "An Imperial staircase (sometimes erroneously known as a "double staircase") is the name given to a staircase with divided flights. Usually the first flight rises to a half-landing and then divides into two symmetrical flights both rising with an equal number of steps and turns to the next floor. The feature is reputed to have first been used at El Escorial. The Jordan Staircase of the Winter Palace is a notable example, while other such staircases can be found at Buckingham Palace, Windsor Castle, Palazzo Reale di Caserta, Palacio Real de Madrid and Mentmore Towers.The advantages of an imperial staircase became apparent during the 18th century, when Matthew Brettingham revolutionised the design of the piano nobile of the London town house. Guests would proceed through a series of reception rooms arranged as a circuit. At large gatherings the two branches could ease the flow of guests arriving and departing, or moving between a ballroom and a supper room on the floor below. An imperial staircase is often used today for similar reasons where two streams of people are moving in opposite directions in buildings as diverse as an opera house to a railway station. This use explains why the first single flight is often wider than the following two divided flights, although narrowing flights are also an architectural trick to lengthen perspective in order to increase the impression of size.An imperial staircase should not be confused with a double staircase, an external feature and common motif seen rising to the entrances of many houses in the Palladian style, such as those at Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire. Double staircases as opposed to imperial staircases are more often of just two flights (hence the name) leaving the ground symmetrically to join one common destination. Occasionally, especially in the architecture of the Sicilian Baroque, they will leave the ground as one flight and then divide, but this is less common. One may also see an imperial staircase in the form of two flights rising to join and then continue as one flight, but this is rare.".
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- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Buckingham_Palace.
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- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Category:Architectural_elements.
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- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink El_Escorial.
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- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Jordan_Staircase_of_the_Winter_Palace.
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Kedleston_Hall.
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Matthew_Brettingham.
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Mentmore_Towers.
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Mezzanine.
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Mezzanine_(architecture).
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- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Piano_nobile.
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Palace_of_Madrid.
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Russian_Museum.
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Sicilian_Baroque.
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Stairs.
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- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Storey.
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Symmetrical.
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Symmetry.
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Windsor_Castle.
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Winter_Palace.
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink Wurzburg_Residenz.
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- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLink File:Johrdan_staircase.jpg.
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLinkText "Imperial staircase".
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLinkText "double stairway".
- Imperial_staircase wikiPageWikiLinkText "imperial staircase".
- Imperial_staircase hasPhotoCollection Imperial_staircase.
- Imperial_staircase subject Category:Architectural_elements.
- Imperial_staircase subject Category:Stairways.
- Imperial_staircase hypernym Name.
- Imperial_staircase type Component.
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- Imperial_staircase comment "An Imperial staircase (sometimes erroneously known as a "double staircase") is the name given to a staircase with divided flights. Usually the first flight rises to a half-landing and then divides into two symmetrical flights both rising with an equal number of steps and turns to the next floor. The feature is reputed to have first been used at El Escorial.".
- Imperial_staircase label "Imperial staircase".
- Imperial_staircase sameAs Keizerlijke_trap.
- Imperial_staircase sameAs m.026n2bc.
- Imperial_staircase sameAs Q2588965.
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- Imperial_staircase depiction Johrdan_staircase.jpg.
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