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Midcentury, a dramatic & whimsical oval mirror encrusted with sea-shells in the Grotto-style,1 French circa 1950
height: 33 in. (84 cm), width: 44 in. (112 cm), depth: 2 in. (5 cm)
Further readings and sources:
- “There’s something about shells: their elegance, their robustness and the childlike wonder they invoke that rises above fashion.” Grotto chic: the designers creating interiors with shells
Less skilled embellishments can be flat and twee but the best creations have an ‘eccentric grittiness’, Financial Times, June 23, 2023 https://www.ft.com/content/73c1cb41-ffba-4a65-8c4e-e9f2bd1dc752 ↩
