Moroso Modern Mirrors

We've overlooked the overlapping frame trend for a while (sorry, Pottery Barn) but now that Moroso has taken the idea one step further, we feel it can no longer be ignored.

Moroso, the cutting edge Italian furniture company, has once again teamed with Doshi Levien, the London based design duo known for combining traditional Indian culture and symbols with contemporary thinking and Western industrial manufacturing. Their newest wares are a collection of silk screened mirrors called Sheesha, which is a Hindi word meaning glass.  These mirrors feature magnified graphic representations of different Indian stitch techniques used to sew tiny mirrors to textiles to ward off the “evil eye,” an example of which can be seen on the Charpoy covers (shown in this image, under the mirrors), one of the original Doshi-Levien designs for Moroso.  There are six silk screened mirrors, plus one without a design, measuring 23 ½ inches in diameter.  The circular mirrors come on an articulated custom bracket with spacers in sets of three, five and seven that allow them to be arranged over and under adjacent mirrors. 

We love the mix of ancient meanings on modern design, and the sculptural effect of overlapping circles. Great for dining rooms or living areas, in a bathroom though, it would drive us crazy.

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