Meet the melting mirrors at Bower Studios

New York design firm Bower Studios has launched a collection of sinuous mirrors that play with perception and appear to hang in a moldable fashion from wooden pegs mounted on the wall. Each of the four "Melt Mirrors" follows a different, slightly tilted shape, creating the impression that they are made of a flexible material rather than rigid glass.

"If something falls around something in a certain way, we automatically perceive it as soft. By using a material that is clearly not soft, we invert the laws of physics and bring out these visual cues inherent in light," said Danny Giannella, who co-authored the study. -founded Bower Studios alongside Tammer Hijazi and Jeffrey Renz. The mirrors are precision cut using a CNC glass machine and mounted on a wooden substrate with a dark brown walnut edge. Attached to this backboard is a circular solid wooden pin that remains visible from the front and appears to support the entire mirror, with the glass wrapping perfectly around its upper half. "It feels like the mirrors would slip and fall to the floor like wet noodles without the dowel," Hijazi told Dezeen . "Every piece in our Melt collection has a grounding element – a rigid component that allows the other molten component to express itself ." Source: Dezeen