Contemporary mirrored furniture, mirrored dressing tables, mirrored bedsides, mirrored console tables, coffee tables.

Mirrored furniture is gaining on popularity , it is becoming more affordable.Mirrored Furniture adds a feel of luxury to your own home. Select Mirrored Console Cables for your hallway and lounge, add Mirrored Coffee tables or Mirrored Lamp Table and instantly you add a touch of glamour to your interior. Our utterly gorgeous and glamorous ALEXANDRA mirrored console/dressing table).Each panel is cut to shape and size that fits perfectly. Each of the mirrored panel’s edges are rounded or bevelled for quality of finish. The mirrored bedside cabinets, mirrored chests of drawers and mirrored dressing tables drawers feature cute round or rectangular drawer handles. Inside each of the drawers is a black finish. To add style to some of the mirrored furniture (look at our Venetian Dressing Table a with matching mirror and stool feature etched patterns.The first place where people caught their reflections were most likely pools of dark, still water collected in vessels. The first manufactured mirrors were pieces of volcanic stone or naturally occurring volcanic glass that has been polished. The earliest polished stone mirror has been found in Turkey and central America. Other places used that used polished bronze or copper as hand crafted mirrors were Mesopotamia,Egypt and China. Metals Copper and tin mixture mirrors may also have been produced in China and India. Solid metal (bronze, later silver) as well as being prone to corrosion. Due to the low reflectivity of polished metal and the artificial light (candles) being used at the time these mirrors were unsuitable for indoor use. They were expensive, prone to corrosion and only affordable by wealthy.Mirrored surfaces as we know them now stem back to the late 1st Century AD when, in Sidon (modern Lebanon), metallic backing was applied to glass to create the first mirrors. Romans, to create a reflective surface, backed the glass with gold leaf. By the 11th century clear glass mirrors were being produced in Spain. In early Renaissance on the isle on Murano, Venetian manufacturers have perfected a superior method of coating glass with tin-mercury amalgam obtaining near-perfect and undistorted reflection .In the16th century Venice became a centre of mirror production using this new method but they were very expensive and considered as objects of opulence,luxury and wealth.For over one hundred years Venetian mirrors installed in richly decorated frames served as luxury decoration for palaces throughout Europe. The secret of the mercury process however, due to industrial espionage, arrived in London and Paris during the 17th century. French workshops succeeded in large scale industrialization of the process, eventually making mirrors affordable, although mercury's toxicity remained a problem. Mirrors still were expensive and considered objects of luxury and opulence. Not only were they used as a reflective tool for dressing, but mirrors became an important part of interior decoration. The royal palace at Versailles has been embellished with a large number of mirrors, to the point that one hall was named the Hall of Mirrors. We have an ever growing Mirror range, available in a various shapes and sizes. This luxurious look became more widespread in the 19^th Century when mirrors became cheaper to produce. They were incorporated onto items of furniture such as cabinets and sideboards. See our range of Venetian mirrored furniture for a great selection of mirrored bedside cabinets and mirrored chests of drawers, available beautifully decorated with mirrored glass panels The invention of the silver-glass mirror is credited to a German chemist who has developed a process that involved depositing a thin layer of metallic silver onto glass. His silver process was adapted for mass manufacturing and led to mirrors becoming more affordable In the early 20th Century, mirrored furniture became a key element of the art-deco period which spanned the time between WW1 and WW2. The artistic movement was spawned in Europe, particularly in Paris, it was a modernist response to the art nouveau style. The elegant new style featured reflective surfaces including chrome and shiny fabrics as well as mirrors. Its followers were heavily influenced by early Hollywood and the glamour and sparkle that went with it. Now you too can create your own Hollywood-style by taking a look at our gorgeous mirror and stool that will add that same star-quality to your own home. And to add some extra glitz in your living area check out the Venetian cube coffee tables which reflects light from each of its four mirrored surfaces and will ensure your home truly is the fairest of them all. Mirrors are manufactured by applying a vacuum deposition of aluminium to the glass substrate. Glass is most suitable for the production of mirrors due to its transparency, ease of fabrication, rigidity, and ability to take a smooth finish and scratch resistance. The reflective coating is typically applied to the surface of the glass, so that it is protected from corrosion and accidental damage.