Victorian Overmantel
Antique 1860s British Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Wood
Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace...
Gold Leaf
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Oak
Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace...
Gold Leaf
Antique Mid-19th Century English High Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Firep...
Gesso, Giltwood
Antique Early 1900s English Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Velvet
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Gold Leaf
Antique 1880s European Victorian Wall Mirrors
Paint
Antique 19th Century British Victorian Wall Mirrors
Wood
Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace...
Giltwood
Antique 1890s British Victorian Mirrors
Mirror, Pine
Antique Late 19th Century British Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace...
Glass
Vintage 1960s Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique 1890s English Victorian Fireplaces and Mantels
Pine
Antique 19th Century Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Walnut
Antique 19th Century Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Mirror, Wood
Vintage 1970s Adam Style Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Pine
Antique 19th Century American Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mir...
Mirror, Giltwood
Antique 19th Century Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Pine
Vintage 1950s Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Resin
Antique Mid-19th Century English High Victorian Wall Mirrors
Giltwood, Gesso, Glass
Antique Late 19th Century American Late Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fir...
Mirror, Giltwood
Antique 1860s American High Victorian Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Giltwood
Antique 19th Century British Victorian Wall Mirrors
Gold Leaf
Antique 19th Century English Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Gold Leaf
Antique 19th Century English Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Oak
Antique 1880s British Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Mirror
Antique 19th Century Scottish Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Antique 19th Century Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique Late 19th Century Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Glass, Giltwood
Antique 19th Century American Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Walnut, Mirror
Antique 19th Century British Victorian Wall Mirrors
Glass, Wood
Antique 19th Century British Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Glass, Giltwood
Antique Early 1900s British Victorian Wall Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique Late 19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Mantel Mirrors and ...
Mirror, Walnut
Antique 1860s Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique 19th Century British Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique Mid-19th Century Dutch Victorian Wall Mirrors
Glass
Antique 1880s Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Oak
Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace...
Pine, Mirror
Antique 19th Century Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Bamboo
Antique 19th Century British Victorian Wall Mirrors
Glass
Antique Late 19th Century English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace...
Giltwood
Antique 1870s English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique 1870s English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique 1880s English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Paint
Antique 1850s English Early Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Gesso
Antique 1870s English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique 19th Century English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Oak
Antique 1870s English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique 1870s English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique 1850s English Early Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique 1860s English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique 1870s English Victorian Wall Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique 1880s European Victorian Wall Mirrors
Paint
Antique 1860s Great Britain (UK) Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace ...
Giltwood
Antique 1870s English Victorian Wall Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique 1870s English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique 1870s English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Giltwood
Antique 1880s English Victorian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Wood, Giltwood
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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.