Playing on the analogy between vanitas and vanity, it is worth presenting even mirrors. To gaze at oneself in the mirror was a fatal desire that cost Narcissus his life. But the mythical warning neither discourages vanity, which tempts everyone to look at themselves in every possible mirror as if to ask for confirmation of one’s being, nor discourages the designers to propose mirrors with the most varied shapes. One of the most fascinating repertoires belongs to Fiam, a company in Pesaro, specializing in curved glass. In its catalogue the company presents floor and wall mirrors, signed by well-known designers, with frames of various shapes. Thanks to the designers’ skills and the executive competence of the company, the Fiam mirrors become real wall sculptures, with their carved, jagged, square and sinuous frames. Singular are also the mirrors presented by Miriam Ellner at the show “Makers” presented at the Mad in New York in 2014: table and hand mirrors taken from the tradition, but translated into forms that seem just barely rough-hewed, with a silvery mirror surface in which is not possible to look at oneself. Almost a warning to be less vain!
WHERE: FIAM Italia Srl, Via Ancona 1 – 61010 Tavullia (PU) – ITALY