This design was driven by the homeowners. They visited our design studio and after brainstorming about options, we came up with this clean and airy stairway. The client did not want balustrade on the first floor beside the stairway, so we brainstormed until the one-of-a-kind custom cable tensioners were conceived and built in our in-house machine shop to allow the cable to run into the backs of the slab treads.