Artistic tradition

French style Fonteghetto mirror

Craftsmanship and Made in Italy

French style mirrors industry was born in 1665 when the French politician Jean-Baptiste Colbert persuaded some important Venetian masters to move to France.

That is the story behind French Style Mirrors. This style is different from Venetian one. It is characterized by a deep grinding and a more geometric design.

A French mirror in fact is made of lots of different bevelled pieces that are closed together and create an harmonious geometrical figure. A beautiful example is Donato, an iconic mirror by Arte Veneziana that is made of 412 hand bevelled pieces. The most visible difference between a Venetian and a French mirror is the total absence of hand-blown glass decorations.

Handmade luxury bronze mirror

Fonteghetto French style mirror

Handmade engravings and decorative crystal Bohemian flowers

Materials

Structure made of fir wood with dark walnut colour finish and rounded corners.

Central part made of bevelled glass with medium antique mirrored finish.

Outer bronze glass frame and inner glass frame with bevelled, engraved and medium antique mirrored finish.

Decorations

Engravings of floral motifs and shiny spheres.

Decorative crystal Bohemian flowers.

Technical info

Size: W. 56 cm, H. 183 cm

Size: W. 22", H. 72"

Code: MFX-AVA-005-M120

Fixing metal bars included

Custom to specification

Sinuous lines and spheres

Accademia Family Line

Like a beautiful collection of art

The family line Accademia reminds of a collection of different important artistic mirrors. The most iconic element of this mirror collection is made by a huge variety of golden and pink shades and beautiful spheres etchings that reminds a pearl necklace.

Smooth and shiny edges

Artistic beveling

Sharpening silhouettes

Our glass masters use different wheels to chamfer and get the glass pieces shiny that will be used on the mirrors and furniture afterwards.

This is a fundamental step of our production: no machines can replace the manual work on this extremely delicate matter. The beveling can be realized thanks to a long and accurate handmade procedure only.

An ancient engraving manufacturing process which still remains entirely handmade as per Venetian traditions.

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