ALTO Stair Treads

One of the products that immediately caught our attention at Dwell on Design was Liza Phillips Design's ALTO stair treads.

Perhaps because we really hate the awful old carpeting on our own stair treads and keep fantasizing about tearing it out.

Designed by Liza Phillips, a New York artist with an obvious appreciation of color, the stair treads are made in Nepal from Himalayan wool. They're available in four color sets (berry, lava, mineral, and moss), each with six solid colors and six related patterns, and they can be rearranged or replaced.

("Moss" is shown to the right, "lava" above.)

You can feel good about buying these: They're not only beautiful, they're green. The Tibetan manufacturers hand spin their wool and use traditional vegetable dyes or eco-friendly Swiss Ciba colors.

Also, Liza Phillips Design is a member of RugMark, working to end child labor in the rug industry.

Standard treads are $70, top and bottom treads are $90. They're sold directly, here.

Comments (4)

I need your help...I have an industrial style loft with metal-grate stairs. The problem is that, because it's a grate, (i) it's hard to clean, and (ii) lots of dusk/hair falls through the grates to the floor below.

I'd like to find some Stair Treads or some sort of solution that is not intrusive, but that covers the grates. I thought about trying a commercial-quality hard rubber tread, but I think it will look tacky.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

http://www.problemsolvers.com/product.asp?pcode=96

this website has the non-toxic adhesive that I am going to use for my FLOR tiles. At $18 a tile they aren't cheap but they do offer "green" recycled and sustainably manufactured tiles. I like the clean, modern look of just adding carpet to the stair treads. we wanted to keep them bare but we and our toddler slip too easily.

I have both. The flor tiles work very well cut in half and put up with abuse pretty well. They aren't as nice and cushy, though as a rich area rug, and the Liza Phillips treads worked really well on the stairs up to my bedroom, where I was going barefoot a lot.

Tape...Liza's product is definitely good, the treads never moved and because it was wider, it was easier to install. That being said, I used a carpet tape by duck products which is really sticky on one side and a tacky foam on the other for the Flor tiles. It worked really well, and it didn't leave a residue on the stairs, you can pick it up and reposition it very easy.

To those who have cut Flor tiles to fit as stair treads: What did you use to cut them?