Souvent les miroirs anciens s'assombrissent de tâches noires et diffuses. Au fil du temps, l'eau et l'oxygène oxyde la fine couche d'argent et le reflet se trouble par endroit, transforme l'image. S'inspirant de ce phénomène, les designers hollandais David Derksen et Lex Pott, tous deux  diplômés de la Design Academy d'Eindhoven, ont imaginé la série de miroirs "Transience Mirrors".









Sur ce projet, David Derksen précise:

"Transcience shows the beauty of the natural oxidizing process of mirrors.

By accelerating and manipulating this process, the Transcience mirrors show various stages of oxidation in three different geometrical patterns.

Normally, the oxidation process in a mirror occurs randomly and evolves slowly over time. This process can be regarded as degradation, however this project shows the beauty of this material transition of silver. These mirrors reveal the different states of this process. In this case, sulphur is used to create an accelerated oxidation process. Depending on the time that the silver is reacting with sulphur, different colour tones can be achieved, ranging from gold to brown, to purple to blue.

Transcience is a project developed together with Lex Pott for the Dutch Design Week 2011 in Eindhoven."

Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site de David Derksen et celui de Lex Pott.

La série des "Transience Mirrors" est présentée à Paris à la Gallery S. Bensimon.


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