Friday, November 26, 2010

Design Mirrors: reflecting the world we live in

The mirror is great piece of furniture and what is even better is that it reflects and frames our world like a work of art.

An Italian design mirror is a house element that, in the wake of aestheticism and philosophy, inspired endless stories, theories and games (illusion games, reality distortion...). A mirror can do everything: can give us a truthful image of ourselves or a distorted one, it can tell us the truth or lie. The one thing it cannot do is looking within our soul.

Or maybe not. I think a mirror can do that too, and it can do it in two ways: the first one is to consider a mirror something way more important than the rest: if we decide to entrap our soul inside it, like Dorian Gray did, we will end up seeing nothing more than our reflection and losing ourselves inside it, as Narcissus did a while ago.
The second one is, more cathartic and creative, to place the mirror in a strategic place inside our house and let it reflect in the most truthful way our soul, painted and spread on the walls, furniture, accessories and objects. Infact, if we have created our house following our image and our most intimate personality, the mirror could do nothing but give that personality back to us, in an even clearer image compared to what our eyes usually see.

It's entirely a question of choosing the right Italian design mirror and then find out where to put it; in this way it can reflect the real nature of our home-soul and also, if necessary or if we desire, it can visually expand the surrounding space. A mirror, all by itself, is able to create a so called "optical illusion", magically doubling the room at your disposal.

Fold mirror by Calligaris, for example, can perfectly be used for expanding the visual space, as I said before, especially if approached to other Fold mirrors; allowing the soul of the other furniture pieces to be clearly visible.

Emerald octagonal mirror, is going to give a touch of luxury to your house but most importantly, thanks to its mirrored glass frame, it will be able to reflect your environment from different fragmented point of views.

Aurora oval mirror with iron decorations bring us back to the past, to that fairytale world placed out of time, a world where Cinderella and Sleepy Beauty really exist, a word of magic where mirrors always reflect the truth.

1 comment:

  1. Really wonder. I am sure that I never seen this type of dash board designs and flooring color before. So luxurious. It is really hard to afford such type of furniture.

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