Mirrors designed to calm down

In her previous life as a dancer in Paris, an opera balloon, Natalie Ziegler, 54, returned to the house of shows with her eyes exhausted with the intense theater lights. It was usually lighting her home without candles, which she placed inside the light lights, and containers collected by themselves with mosaic parts of stained glass.

“All of my friends were crazy about them,” Mrs. Ziegler said in a video call. “That was the beginning of my love to work with the glass.”

After retiring from dance in the late 1990s, she began making jewel -like equipment, mirrors, ships and candlesticks in broccoli brochets of glass pieces, with a focus ultimately on the matching glass. Its designs inspired by nature, which begin with the drawings of the hand that can be found throughout their studio in Paris, include birds, snakes and radioactive sun, as well as crystalline and more abstract sheets.

All of her work is rooted in traditional French craftsmanship. It is often used by the Verrieie de Saint-Just, a company created in 1826. “I can’t use an ordinary cup now,” said Ms. Ziegler. “Because of the light, due to the texture in the blown glass. If the rose is used, it is like sunset. You have everything in it.”

“Thousands and thousands of pieces,” she said in her studio. Each part is placed in the frame of copper, guaranteed with silicone. It is an arduous process that can lead to 14 or 16 -hour business days.

Mrs. Ziegler estimated that she had spent a month on a large snake mirror that appeared in her 2023 show at Twenty First exhibition in New York. The design includes a snake with water ripples towards a group of coral reefs and octopus, and what you described as “meat flowers”.

She said that each of her mirrors is really a window or a fake door. “Do not see yourself; it is to see yourself.”