The materials of this monochrome balustrade in a California house, designed in 1999-2003 by Robert A.M. Stern, are similar to those of the Meier house. The design is, in some ways, simpler, but the effect is quite different. This stair appears more glamorous, the balustrade softened by its sinuous supports, which are abstracted, slightly Art Deco versions of 18^th-century balusters. Nothing factorylike about this opulent design.