Detroit Home/Walls Talk - Mirror Image/Autum 2012

Looking glasses can be especially striking in the dining room, a place where Clancey says he often hangs them. "With candlelight, and all that reflection, they help create a mood,"he says. Carvers' Guild, a Massachusetts company that offers more than three hundred mirror designs, created this handmade autumnal Newport Harvest Wreath Mirror (carversguild.com) .. It's an exact reproduction of the clerestory window surrounds in the dining room of the Breakers Mansion. built in the 1890's for Cornelius Vanderbilt in Newport, R.I.