A baluster (/ˈbæləstər/ ) is an upright support, often a vertical moulded shaft, square, or lathe-turned form found in stairways, parapets, and other architectural...

Heavy baluster glasses or goblets (French 'balustre' = 'pomegranate flower') were popular in the period 1680–1740. The baluster stem is formed in one...

"volute" that connects the tops of the balusters. Besides the cosmetic appeal, starting steps allow the balusters to form a wider, more stable base for...

basilica and architecture characterised by pilaster-strips, blank arcading, baluster shafts and triangular headed openings. After the Norman conquest in 1066...

and Brian corrects him by saying they are called “baluster slats”. Stewie then asks if the “baluster” is the big, round thing at the bottom of the stairs...

design is built on-site using pressure treated lumber, with the vertical balusters regularly spaced to meet building code. Wood railing could be in different...

also heavily used: flutings, pilasters (fluted and unfluted), fluted balusters (twisted and straight), columns (engaged and unengaged, sometimes replaced...

within a quarter-mile of it to evacuate. Waves partially destroyed the balusters of Memorial Park in Jacksonville, which had been repaired following damage...

Detached Semi-detached Townhouse Studio apartment Architectural elements Arch Baluster Belt course Bressummer Ceiling Chimney Colonnade / Portico Column Cornice...

common uses: As a solder. It was used to secure cast iron railings and balusters in pockets in stone bases and steps. As a heat transfer medium in heating...

part, placed inside a glass case protected by a golden grate. Above the baluster of the altar were placed eight putti in prayer or bearing the nails of...

brought from Makrana. The façade is composed of cusped arches and engaged baluster columns with smooth and fine contours. The mosque has three superimposed...

support in bathrooms or similar areas. Handrails are typically supported by balusters or attached to walls. Similar items not covered in this article include...

period, an architecture characterised by pilaster-strips, blank arcading, baluster shafts and triangular headed openings. In the last decades of the Anglo-Saxon...

Beaker. Beer glassware. Bottle. Coffee cup. Cup. Dwarf ale glass. Heavy baluster glass. Jar. Mazagran. Mug. Pythagorean cup. Quaich. Sake cup (ochoko)....

padlocks-decorated bridge in Ljubljana. The Triple Bridge is decorated with stone balusters and stone lamps on all of the three bridges and leads to the terraces...

Guimard (1897–98) Tulip candelabra by Fernand Dubois (1899) Cast iron Baluster by George Grant Elmslie (1899–1904) Chocolate pot with a molinet (stirring...

characterised by gilded fluted domes, cupolas, kiosks, stone lanterns, ornate balusters, and square roofs. A pinnacle of Sikh style is Harmandir Sahib (also known...

shoot downwards; this incline is called the superior talus. Attic style Baluster Merlon Redoubt Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Parapet" . Encyclopædia Britannica...

reservoir for oil is suggestive of later forms of chandeliers with a central baluster with branching arms. The early form of hanging lighting devices in religious...

window's sill and is typically made with sliding panel-covers behind balusters or grills. Bobby Mañosa's traditional methods for his design of the Coconut...

such as volutes (curled sections of handrail) and intricately shaped balusters. However, a reduction in the supply of healthy trees, especially in Europe...

typically spaced 50' along walkways, such as conveyor platforms. Stanchions (balusters or bollards) are also the upright posts inserted into the ground or floor...

forming bands, patterns and frames around door jambs, window frames and balusters. Algiers was protected by a wall about 3.1 kilometres (1.9 mi) long with...

formed by 34,800 black and white tiles placed as a checkerboard and 4,100 balusters. In 1932, a gazebo for musical performances was built in the large square;...

period) an architecture characterised by pilaster-strips, blank arcading, baluster shafts and triangular-headed openings. Many cathedrals of England are ancient...

are named according to their use such as eave bracket, gable fretwork or baluster fretwork, which may be of metal, especially cast iron or aluminum. Installing...

Detached Semi-detached Townhouse Studio apartment Architectural elements Arch Baluster Belt course Bressummer Ceiling Chimney Colonnade / Portico Column Cornice...

an acorn, plain knob or a diamond; at the end of the 16th century, the baluster and seal ending becomes common, the bowl being fig-shaped. During The...

which is believed to have been about one square meter and surrounded by a baluster. Edward Gibbon in his History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire...