| If you're looking for the perfect way to embellish or | | | | widens instantly, adding the perfect finishing touch. |
| lift an elegantly designed room, the answer may be | | | | French mirrors are often used in living rooms, sitting |
| staring you in the face. Or staring back at you. | | | | rooms and drawing rooms, but they are also perfect |
| French mirrors provide some of the most superb | | | | for the bedroom. Large, oversized mirrors for |
| ways of creating the ideal focal point of a classically | | | | dressing tables are magnificent, and free standing tall |
| designed room. | | | | mirrors ideal for the bedroom where you can admire |
| French mirrors are available in a huge range of styles | | | | your elegant dress sense before stepping out. |
| and designs, but most typically when people think of | | | | Triple dressing table mirrors are also a popular choice, |
| such mirrors it is generally those styles which could | | | | providing not only the perfect way to reflect light |
| be called rococo or late Baroque, so typical of the | | | | from all angles onto your face, enabling you to apply |
| late eighteenth century in French design. | | | | makeup in a more even fashion, but also creates a |
| Rococo style French mirrors, often large or | | | | stunning illusion of light and space in the bedroom. |
| oversized, decorated with incredible detail and usually | | | | Rococo French mirrors are often decorated in a way |
| asymmetrical, provide the most amazing focal point | | | | that includes swirls and sweeping lines, quite probably |
| for a room, especially above a fireplace. | | | | in an asymmetrical way. Indeed, the late Baroque |
| As well as being artistic in themselves of course | | | | period was a complete break from the traditional |
| mirrors also add light to a room, by reflecting the | | | | Baroque architecture of clean lines and imposing |
| natural light entering through the windows. By thinking | | | | tectonic shapes. |
| carefully about where the light is coming in and | | | | The late Baroque period during which rococo quite |
| where the darker areas of the room may be it is | | | | literally flowered was one of the most imaginative |
| possible to identify the perfect place to fit French | | | | and fun periods of architecture and design, sneaking |
| mirrors for a real boost that makes the room seem | | | | in just before the neo classical period. |
| instantly lighter and brighter. | | | | Today the French style of decor so popular during |
| But of course French mirrors also add to the size of | | | | the reigns of Louis XV and Louis XVI remains one of |
| the room, or appear to. Because many of the late | | | | the most popular styles of classic decor across the |
| Baroque style French mirrors are fairly large they | | | | world, and French mirrors are the ideal way to |
| create a very striking illusion of additional space, | | | | complete a look, lighten and brighten a room, and |
| opening a room quite significantly. | | | | create the illusion of space in a way that truly |
| This is important and helpful because a French | | | | complements the theme of a room in a way that's |
| inspired room is often full of a great amount of detail, | | | | guaranteed to gain admiration from all who 'entrer |
| and this can sometimes make a room seem a little | | | | dans la salle'. |
| smaller. By including an ornate mirror, the room | | | | |