Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Throwing shine among the shadows, mirrored interiors have dazzled since ancient times. In Rome, Emperor Nero\u2019s Domus Aurea \u2013 the Golden House \u2013 sparkled with fragments of mirror and glass. And a century before the Sun King\u2019s Galerie des Glaces spectacularly showcased the French glass-making industry in 1684, the Mirror Hall of Golestan Palace, with its reflective grid ceiling and elaborate symmetry, shone as a\u00a0beacon of brightness in Tehran.In Mirrors: Reflections of Style, author Paula Phipps traces the inception of mirror-lined rooms to Persia and India where, she says, \u201csmall mirrored cabinet rooms were installed for contemplative purposes\u201d. This idea of shiny surfaces igniting self-reflection remains a rich seam among artists, from Doug Aitken and Yayoi Kusama to Niki de Saint Phalle\u2019s mirrored Tuscan Tarot Garden.\u00a0In Paris (until 2 September), the South Korean artist Kimsooja has covered the vast circular floor of the main dome inside the Bourse de Commerce with myriad reflective squares. Amplifying the grandeur of the rotunda\u2019s 360-degree 19th-century ceiling murals, the effect is simultaneously disorientating and clarifying. \u201cA mirror is a\u00a0fabric woven by our own gaze,\u201d says the artist of her meditation on the mirror as a\u00a0portal into the self and otherness.A mirror is a fabric woven by our own gazeBeyond self-reflection or Liberace-style showboating, mirrored spaces have a practical \u2013 and increasingly popular \u2013 purpose in\u00a0interiors. \u201cMirrors multiply perspectives and possibilities,\u201d says Nicholas Cullinan, director designate of\u00a0the British Museum, whose 1960s apartment in the Kent coastal town of Margate, conceived with his partner, art\u00a0dealer Mattias Vendelmans, is an elegantly\u00a0mirrored fun\u00a0house in which the reflective surfaces play with perception and perspective, combining plywood panelling and custom\u2011cut strips of reflective acrylic.\u201cAll these surfaces of shimmering light reflect the Margate streetlights and the ever-changing Turner-esque skies,\u201d says Vendelmans of the rooms, which reference everything from Coco Chanel\u2019s Rue Cambon mirrored staircase to Luca Guadagnino\u2019s remake of 1970s Italo-horror Suspiria. \u201cFrom the moment we decided to apply mirrors, we started to see them everywhere.\u201d\u00a0The key is to opt for something slightly watery rather than filling a space with a standard cut-glass mirror. Opt for antiqued glass, which lends a subtler, softer and more flattering shine. Mirror Works, Rupert Bevan and Dominic Schuster specialise in beautifully hand-worked antiqued mirror glass.For more contemporary tastes, the Venetian metallisation company Materica creates precision metal coatings of brass, zinc or copper for any material, even cloth.\u00a0It\u00a0presented its debut collection of reflective\u00a0modular panels for the home at\u00a0the recent Milan Design Week. \u201cPeople usually think of metal as being cold, but these experimental surfaces have the power to bring a warmth and a very special atmosphere to the home,\u201d says interior architect Luigi\u00a0Ciuffreda, one of the company\u2019s creative directors.\u00a0But less is often more. \u201cI\u00a0think you can overuse mirror,\u201d says interior designer Rachel Chudley. \u201cIt can be\u00a0one of the most powerful tools for transformation, but it has to be done sensitively.\u201d In a client\u2019s London mews house, Chudley turned an awkward corner of an all-white sitting room into \u201cthe perfect nighttime party nook\u201d by installing a plush combination of\u00a0padded leopard-print velvet and mirrored panels. \u201cIt\u2019s full-blown trickery,\u201d she says of\u00a0the resulting dining space.\u201cMirror is very useful in dark rooms to\u00a0bounce light around and play with proportions,\u201d says designer Adam Bray, who added a mirrored wall to his kitchen. He cites as inspiration the American decorators Billy Baldwin and Frances Elkins, who created mirrored dressing rooms in the\u00a01930s, and French designer Alain Demachy, who employed mirror to\u00a0line the insides of window reveals. There\u00a0is a caveat: \u201cIt can create unexpected views that are not always welcome,\u201d says Bray of its frequent use in bathrooms. \u201cI\u2019ve never understood why people add mirrored panels to the sides of the bath.\u201d\u00a0For Duncan Campbell, one half of the design duo Campbell-Rey, the mirrored bathroom should hint at the unexpected. \u201cWhen you\u2019re using soft, Venetian mirror, it\u2019s not about getting a view of yourself from every angle, it\u2019s more about glimpses of light and things reflecting and twinkling,\u201d says Campbell, who with Charlotte Rey is working on the extensive restoration of a\u00a01920s villa on the Ligurian coast. The principal bedroom adjoins a lounge-like bathroom soon to be encased entirely in panels of mirror, right down to the cast-glass cornicing and architectural pilasters.\u00a0\u201cYou don\u2019t want their surface to be perfect, but you want them to be reflective, so they have a lovely soft wobble,\u201d says Campbell. \u201cThe effect in a bathroom with views out to the Ligurian Sea, and the scent of pine forest wafting in, will be silvery and ethereal.\u201d The space draws on the theatrical spirit of English decorator Syrie Maugham, who conjured all-glass bathrooms and glass-screened sitting rooms in resplendent London homes in the 1920s and \u201930s.\u00a0As that era\u2019s spare art deco elegance swings back into vogue, so too has\u00a0the popularity of mirrored interiors magnified. Fiona Sutcliffe, co-founder of London\u2019s Sterling Studios, a specialist decorative-arts company, recently worked on the upgrade of the mirrored ballroom and anteroom at London\u2019s Claridge\u2019s, replicating its amber-hued glass and etched floral motifs, as well as the magnificent interior of\u00a0the private members\u2019 club Oswald\u2019s.\u00a0Sutcliffe is drawn to the medium\u2019s technical and mathematical demands. \u201cWith a mural you can paint over it,\u201d she says. \u201cBut with glass, once it\u2019s done, it\u2019s done \u2013 it\u2019s more controlled.\u201d The company has an archive of more than 20,000 samples ranging from antiqued mirror to carved glass to elaborately engraved verre \u00e9glomis\u00e9.\u00a0\u201cMirror has its own rhythm,\u201d she says. \u201cYou no longer see the walls and it opens everything up, which is especially useful in\u00a0the city where you need a bit of space.\u201d Sutcliffe advises sticking largely to mirrored dining rooms, downstairs loos and narrow corridors, and softening their luminescent effect by layering the space.For those wanting to dip their toe in Narcissus\u2019s reflective pool without going all-out, there\u2019s a proliferation of mirrored objects \u2013 from thrones to tables \u2013 that bring smaller hits of light. There\u2019s also the efficient yet effective option of simply lining two opposite walls with symmetrical mirrors.Foil is also a fun, albeit more DIY, option. \u201cIt\u2019s all about playing with the light,\u201d says Viola Lanari, who has covered everything from the ceiling of her studio and the hallway of her former flat to the showroom she created for Milan Design Week in 2022 in foil and reflective vinyl. Though she says it works best in a small space, all you need is some supermarket foil, spray glue and a steady hand. Fortune favours the brave: the\u00a0true wonder of an all-mirrored room comes alive at night in seemingly wall-less rooms studded with stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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