A staircase rose up and around in the background, surrounded by landscape paintings that were probably supposed to look snazzily post-modern but were actually rather bad.
The walls were lined with bad artwork and stairs spiralled up to the next floor.
mnli hypothesis: The walls were lined with bad artwork and stairs spiralled up to the next floor. premise: A staircase rose up and around in the background, surrounded by landscape paintings that were probably supposed to look snazzily post-modern but were actually rather bad.