Stairs
"Service stairs" tucked away in a corner off of more formal rooms in the Basilica Papale di Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome. Without a supporting column running up the middle, the void there could be used to raise and lower baskets, to save the labor of carrying items up and down.
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