Baluster
A baluster— also called spindle or stair stick—is a moulded shaft, square or of lathe-turned form, a form cut from a rectangular or square plank, one of various forms of spindle in woodwork, made of stone or wood and sometimes of metal, standing on a unifying footing, and supporting the coping of a parapet or the handrail of a staircase.
Multiplied in this way, they form a balustrade. Individually, a baluster shaft may describe the turned form taken by a brass or silver candlestick, an upright furniture support, or the stem of a brass chandelier, etc.
Etymology
According to OED, "baluster" is derived through the French: balustre, from Italian: balaustro, from balaustra, "pomegranate flower" [from a resemblance to the swelling form of the half-open flower (illustration, below left)], from Latin balaustium, from Greek balaustion-βαλαύστιον.
History
The earliest examples are those shown in the bas-reliefs representing the Assyrian palaces, where they were employed as window balustrades and apparently had Ionic capitals. As an architectural element the balustrade did not seem to have been known to either the Greeks or the Romans, but baluster forms are familiar in the legs of chairs and tables represented in Roman bas-reliefs, where the original legs or the models for cast bronze ones were shaped on the lathe, or in Antique marble candelabra, formed as a series of stacked bulbous and disc-shaped elements, both kinds of sources familiar to Quattrocento designers.
Banister (surname)
Banister is a surname, and may refer to;
Banister comes from the Old French or Old Norman banastre which was a type of wicker basket also related to the Modern French banne and to Occitan banasta.
See also
Podcasts:
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- Endzeit Bunkertracks, Act VI released: 2012
- Electro for Japan released: 2011
- Endzeit Bunkertracks, Act III released: 2007
Endzeit Bunkertracks, Act VI
Released 2012- Sheffields Finest
- Hit the Drums
- Can You Feel the Beat (Grendel mix)
- Living Hell
- Torture Porn
- Sacrifice
- Ritual
- Go Zonkers! (Freefall mix)
- Future Friends
- Wer schön sein will muss sterben
- God Is Art
- Fuck the Fucking Fuckers
- Acid Orgy
- God Saves
- What Happened Here (Taunting Devils' mix)
- Radical Human
- Assimilation
Electro for Japan
Released 2011- Escape From Beigeland
- The Fear in My Heart
- We Are Nothing (But Nothing Lasts Forever)
- Now (Implant remix)
- Surrender No Resistance
- 2 Arms 4 Wheels (Waiting for Words Electromix by Electrocaine)
- Strange World (2011 version)
- Evolution industrielle
- Warm Leatherette
- Vexer
- No Pain No Shame
- Le Feu
- 12 Days
- USSR Terror (New Wave 84 remix)
- Don't Stop
- Ready Steady Go! (Spark! remix)
- Strange Kiss (Chemical Sweet Kids remix)
- Impression
- Anéantissement
- Under a Rising Sun (People Theatre mix)
- Ugly Motel
- Skullduggery
- I'm Sorry That I Hate You
- No Land's Man
- The Carousel (Planktoon mix)
- Mag. 9
- Open Your Mind
- Tant mieux !
- I'll Begin
- Nostalgia (Energiser mix)
- Le Flacon
- Veil of Thorns
- Without You
- Everything Is Going Wrong (Fatherless Child mix)
- Lifeline
- Sunday Mitternacht
- Ein Sägefisch
- Individuals
- Miles Away (Full version)
- Size Zero (Blank remix)
- Psychoanalysis for the Masses (People Theatre remix)
- Our Darkness
- Gränsland
- If I Only Had a Brain
- Trompe-l'œil
- Freaks (Nurb a.k.a. Monobloc remix)
- Bun Mei No Tan Jou
Endzeit Bunkertracks, Act III
Released 2007- MAN (Mothers Against Noise)
- Menschen
- Nothing but a Mashine
- Coppin' It Sweet (Noisuf-X mix)
- Extreme
- Adrenaline (Endzeit edit)
- Still Born Defect (Nemesis mix)
- Anxiety Neuroses
- Strawberry Panic
- Skullfucker (Synnack mix)
- WWW
- The Offering
- Numb
- Morituri Te Salutant
- Das Ist Elektro
- Mine (Endzeit mix)
- Destroy the Wall (Supreme Court remix)
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Whoever Touches You
by: Benny HesterYou're the one that I have chosen
You are mine and that's forever
I will love you like no other
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Oh My child
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You are My treasure
In Me you can hide
Whoever touches you
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In your trials you’re scared and troubled
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Call to Me and hear Me answer