Gilt Mirror Cartouche
Vintage 1940s French Wall Mirrors
Giltwood
Vintage 1960s American Hollywood Regency Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Wood
Antique 1730s Italian Neoclassical Wall Mirrors
Gold Leaf
Late 20th Century American Louis XV Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Giltwood
Antique Early 1800s French Louis XVI Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Giltwood, Gesso
Antique 1820s English George III Wall Mirrors
Gesso, Mirror, Wood, Giltwood
Antique Early 1900s Italian Rococo Revival Wall Mirrors
Wood, Paint
Antique 1820s French Louis Philippe Wall Mirrors
Gesso, Mirror, Giltwood
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Wall Mirrors
Glass, Giltwood
Antique Mid-18th Century Italian Baroque Wall Mirrors
Glass, Giltwood, Wood, Mirror
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Wall Mirrors
Gesso, Giltwood
Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Giltwood
Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis XV Wall Mirrors
Giltwood, Mirror
Antique 1840s French Louis Philippe Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Tin
Antique 19th Century French Louis XVI Wall Mirrors
Gold Leaf
Late 20th Century American Louis XV Wall Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Wall Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Antique 18th Century and Earlier Italian Wall Mirrors
Antique 1870s English Rococo Revival Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Giltwood
Antique 19th Century Italian Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Wood, Paint
Antique 19th Century English Chippendale Wall Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique 18th Century French Louis XVI Wall Mirrors
Giltwood, Mirror
Antique 1730s English George II Wall Mirrors
Giltwood, Gesso
Antique Early 19th Century Georgian Wall Mirrors
Wood, Gesso, Mirror
20th Century French Rococo Wall Mirrors
Silver Leaf
Antique 1750s English Rococo Girandoles
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Antique 1740s English George II Wall Mirrors
Gesso, Mercury Glass, Giltwood
20th Century Italian Wall Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique 19th Century Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Giltwood
Antique Early 19th Century European Regency Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Giltwood
20th Century Peruvian Spanish Colonial Wall Mirrors
Giltwood, Mirror
Antique 1720s English George III Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Mahogany, Giltwood
Antique Mid-18th Century Dutch Baroque Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Wood
Antique 1720s Irish George I Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Giltwood
Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Trumeau Mirrors
Mirror, Giltwood, Paint
Antique Early 19th Century Baroque Wall Mirrors
Gold Leaf
Antique Mid-18th Century English Wall Mirrors
Mercury Glass, Giltwood
Antique Early 18th Century English George II Wall Mirrors
Giltwood, Mirror
Antique Mid-19th Century English High Victorian Girandoles
Gesso, Mirror, Giltwood
Antique Mid-18th Century French Louis XV Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Wood
Antique 1810s Italian Neoclassical Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Ebony, Mahogany, Giltwood
Antique Mid-18th Century Irish George II Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Walnut, Giltwood
Antique Late 19th Century French Empire Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Wood
Antique 1810s Italian Neoclassical Wall Mirrors
Gesso, Mirror, Giltwood, Lacquer
Antique Mid-19th Century French Louis Philippe Wall Mirrors
Gold Leaf
Antique 19th Century Italian Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Wood
20th Century American Louis XV Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Giltwood
Antique Late 17th Century European Baroque Wall Mirrors
Gold Leaf
Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Wall Mirrors
Wood
Antique 19th Century French Wall Mirrors
Antique 1810s Italian Neoclassical Wall Mirrors
Gold Leaf
Antique 1760s English Chippendale Wall Mirrors
Gold Leaf
Antique 1770s Italian Neoclassical Wall Mirrors
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
Antique 1880s French Napoleon III Wall Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique 1820s Italian Neoclassical Table Mirrors
Gesso, Glass, Wood, Paint
Antique Late 19th Century French Louis XV Trumeau Mirrors
Wood
Vintage 1920s Art Deco Wall Mirrors
Antique 1880s Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror
Antique 19th Century French Wall Mirrors
Glass, Mirror, Wood, Giltwood
Antique 18th Century Italian Baroque Wall Mirrors
Wood
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Finding the Right Mirrors for You
The road from early innovations in reflective glass to the alluring antique and vintage mirrors in trendy modern interiors has been a long one but we’re reminded of the journey everywhere we look.
In many respects, wall mirrors, floor mirrors and full-length mirrors are to interior design what jeans are to dressing. Exceedingly versatile. Universally flattering. Unobtrusively elegant. And while all mirrors are not created equal, even in their most elaborate incarnation, they're still the heavy lifters of interior design, visually enlarging and illuminating any space.
We’ve come a great distance from the polished stone that served as mirrors in Central America thousands of years ago or the copper mirrors of Mesopotamia before that. Today’s coveted glass Venetian mirrors, which should be cleaned with a solution of white vinegar and water, were likely produced in Italy beginning in the 1500s, while antique mirrors originating during the 19th century can add the rustic farmhouse feel to your mudroom that you didn’t know you needed.
By the early 20th century, experiments with various alloys allowed for mirrors to be made inexpensively. The geometric shapes and beveled edges that characterize mirrors crafted in the Art Deco style of the 1920s can bring pizzazz to your entryway, while an ornate LaBarge mirror made in the Hollywood Regency style makes a statement in any bedroom. Friedman Brothers is a particularly popular manufacturer known for decorative round and rectangular framed mirrors designed in the Rococo, Louis XVI and other styles, including dramatic wall mirrors framed in gold faux bamboo that bear the hallmarks of Asian design.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, mid-century modernism continues to influence the design of contemporary mirrors. Today’s simple yet chic mantel mirror frames, for example, often neutral in color, owe to the understated mirror designs introduced in the postwar era.
Sculptor and furniture maker Paul Evans had been making collage-style cabinets since at least the late 1950s when he designed his Patchwork mirror — part of a series that yielded expressive works of combined brass, copper and pewter — for Directional Furniture during the mid-1960s. Several books celebrating Evans’s work were published beginning in the early 2000s, as his unconventional furniture has been enjoying a moment not unlike the resurgence that the Ultrafragola mirror is seeing. Designed by the Memphis Group’s Ettore Sottsass in 1970, the Ultrafragola mirror, in all its sensuous acrylic splendor, has become somewhat of a star thanks to much-lauded appearances in shelter magazines and on social media.
On 1stDibs, we have a broad selection of vintage and antique mirrors and tips on how to style your contemporary mirror too.
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