Continuing our 2023 review, we have selected 10 striking staircases published on Dezeen this year, from prefabricated plywood steps at a Cornish home to a colourful set for an opera in a Swiss theatre.
Architects and designers have continued to find clever solutions to travelling on foot from one storey to another in 2023 by creating staircases that are both beautiful and functional.
Ranging from the spectacular to the space-saving, here are Dezeen's top 10 staircases of 2023:

Photo by Purnesh Dev Nikhanj
Ribbon House, India, by Studio Ardete
An angular balustrade with tilting black rails twists around sweeping concrete steps to form the staircase at Ribbon House, a home in Punjab with an equally sculptural exterior.
Architecture office Studio Ardete placed open living spaces next to the staircase on each floor to create lobby-like communal areas on the house's different levels. Find out more about Ribbon House ?

Photo by Lorenzo Zandri
House by the Sea, UK, by Of Architecture
House by the Sea is the home of a surfer-and-artist couple in Newquay, Cornwall, that was designed to be "simple, robust and utilitarian".
For the interior, London studio Of Architecture inserted prefabricated plywood steps leading to a cosy mezzanine level tucked beneath the dwelling's sloping roof.
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Photo by Schnepp Renou
Haus 1, Germany, by MVRDV and Hirschmüller Schindele Architekten
A bright yellow, zigzagging staircase juts out from the facade ...