
Balustrade
We offer an astronomical selection of polyurethane balusters and balustrade systems in a variety of materials. Whether your project is commercial or residential or if you are seeking a painted look or finished product Imadave Innova has a solution to fit the your needs. Within each balustrade system we have many styles of porch balusters and rail widths to fit a particular budget or a type of design.
Though you might not know exactly what a balustrade is, you probably encounter one more often than you’d expect. Found lining many staircases and terraces, a balustrade is a row of small columns topped by a rail. The term is derived from the form’s constituent posts, called balusters, a name coined in 17th-century Italy for the bulbous item’s resemblance to blossoming pomegranate flowers (balaustra in Italian).
The earliest examples of balustrades comes from ancient bas-reliefs, or sculptural murals, dating from sometime between the 13th and 7th centuries b.c. In depictions of Assyrian palaces, balustrades can be seen lining the windows. Interestingly, they don’t appear during the architecturally innovative Greek and Roman eras (there are, at least, no ruins to prove their existence), but they resurface in the late 15th century, when they were used in Italian palaces.