Italian Guilloche Oval Mirror Bamboo materials that offered an earthy

materials that offered an earthy counterpoint to the chrome and plastic dominating contemporaneous design

The deep relief carving creates graduated shadows that shift throughout the day as natural light changes

with patination consistent with five decades of careful ownership

shaped to wrap the perspex from behind and then drawn forward into the hook

polished and carved into stepped

Italian Guilloche Oval Mirror Bamboo materials that offered an earthyA 1930s Italian wall mirror with a blackened carved wood frame in an oval form, a less common silhouette for the period than the standard rectangle. The frame carries two stacked layers of carved moulding running around the full oval, and the deep matte black finish picks up the carving as a play of edges and shadow rather than as flat ornament. At 72 by 56 centimetres it is substantial enough to anchor a wall on its own. Italian frame makers in the