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The owners of a high-end home in Bluffton, S.C., wanted to push the design envelope with their grand entry staircase. They wanted to build twin staircases rising up from the entry, they wanted the staircases to be glass, and they wanted the glass to be blue.

“The sheer magnitude and size of this job is really impressive,” says Tim Czechowski, president of Jockimo, Newport Beach, Calif., the glass supplier on the project. “But, the cool thing for me is the color.”

Czechowski says the homeowners wanted the staircases to reflect the nearby ocean. “On other projects with color-coated products, the glass edge still looks green or clear. With this glass, the front edge of the glass is solid blue.”

Jockimo created the blue cast to the glass using lites of tempered Azuria glass by PPG Industries, Pittsburgh. The glass features three lites of 3/8-inch tempered Azuria laminated with .06-inch interlayers. The top lite features Jockimo's Ultimate privacy glass with its GlassGrit Underwriters Laboratories-approved anti-slip walking surface. The bottom lite features Jockimo’s Revo texture.

“All panels were tempered then laminated and then monolithically polished at the very end to provide a clean high polished edge detail,” Czechowski says. The staircases were engineered to ensure deflection wouldn’t be a problem.

Johnson & Associates, Bluffton, S.C., served as the architect, and Highsmith Construction, Hilton Head Island, S.C., as the general contractor.