Metal Art Mirrors and Metal Art Overview


by Ivan Smith - Date: 2008-10-18 - Word Count: 490 Share This!

A mirror is not just something you look into to comb yourhair or repair your make up. It is an important part of the décor of any home.Unlike other decorative items, it is not static. The image is displays willkeep changing depending on the angle of the viewer and the light falling uponit.

 

But mirrors by themselves are not decorative items. They canbe made so by placing them in artistic metal frames and making them metal artmirrors. While wrought iron frames have been popular for a long time and havebeen used extensively to enhance the appeal of bathroom and open areas, moderndesigners have started using a variety of metals and shapes to create a vastrange of modern metal art mirrors. Depending on your personal taste andpreference you can go in for heavily embellished metal art mirrors from India,antique Victorian mirrors with heavy scroll work, art deco metal art mirrors ingeometric shapes or frames of complex design where the mirror is only a part ofa larger work of art. Metal art mirrors encompass all these and more. Sizes canrange from pieces as big as a wall, with either one huge mirror on multiplesmall ones, mounted different angles to reflect different facets of the room, toa small wall or table piece that is beautiful not by what it reflects butsimply because of the artistic combination of glass and metal.

 

Glass and metal have long shared a special relationship. Theearliest mirrors were shiny reflective sheet of metal. When glass was created,on of the first thing to be paired with it was a frame to protect it frombreaking. While wood was, and still is, a popular framing material, metal,because it is hard like glass, has always seemed the more appropriate material.As the metal work was embellished and decorated, the metal art mirror was born.

 

While metal art mirrors are by themselves highly decorativeitems, their placing in the house can contribute a great deal to the effectthey have on the décor.

 

A large metal art mirror placed at the end of a smallhallway not only adds beauty but creates a feeling of space.

 

Add space and style to your bathroom by placing small metalart mirrors at different places so that when looking in one you see multiplereflection of yourself.

 

Hanging a metal art mirror with a soft metal frame of brassor copper and reflecting a soft light off it will create a warm effectcombining both the light reflected off the glass and the glow from the frame.

 

A small room may be made to appear larger than it is byhanging a large open type frame, with grill or scroll work which has many smallmirrors embedded in it. Using one large frame for many mirrors will not makethe wall seem overcrowded and the open nature of the art metal frame will allowthe wall to be visible and make the room appear larger.

 

Metal art mirrors offer infinite possibilitiesfor interiors decoration. The only limiting factor is your imagination.

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