Wood Mirror, United States

A nearly perfect square, framed as though flatness alone would not do.

This mirror comes from the United States and is contemporary, in wood and glass. Heavily ornamented frames have long given mirrors their weight in a room, turning something useful for light and reflection into a piece of wall architecture. Interlocking scrolls run all the way round the wide frame in a soft gray-green, with copper-toned color glowing from the recesses. Small block moldings edge it inside and out, around plain beveled glass. Forty-seven and a half inches high and forty-seven wide.

That half inch keeps it honest.