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Wow...that first mirror is unbelievably overpriced. For $1600 I hope they used genuine unicorn leather.

Looks like it could be a pretty easy DIY

errrrr...good luck with that labchick. (??)

Ikea's Grundtal mirror is $30 (27 1/2"). Make a faux hanger out of a strip of cloth or leather (an old belt, maybe?) over a nail or hook and you've got the same thing for 1/10th the price.

Uhhhh....$299 is about $249 more than anyone should spend on a mirror of that size, let alone $1600.

i agree...an easy hack for either of the lesser priced options. and i love Tar and Violets idea about the belt. you could stitch a couple of them together.

using a vintage doorknob as the hanger would be great too.

I'm not fond of either of these - You can hardly see the detail when you're standing in front of it much less across the room, so what's the point?

Give me a big splashy starburst mirror anytime.

Just FYI...

As I learned from a comment on Ahn-Minh's blog, BDDW's version of this mirror is not the first of its kind -- please see Jacques Adnet's original from the 1940s. (Prices start at $5500 -- eep!)

anna, i don't think the adnet mirrors were made as large a bddw's. and since i visited the showroom and loved that mirror among other things at bddw, i could not live with the differences with the pottery barn mirror.
i still think it's best to save up and buy one beautiful thing, than buy a lot of look alikes or settle fors.

im really disturbed that everyone here thinks its cool to celebrate disposable knock offs made by children overseas making 10 cents and hour while bashing a awesome company that pay craftmen more than minimum wage to make stuff in america. apartment therapy you should be ashamed your using bddws images to help pottery barn sell knock offs.

i own a bddw mirror and im not rich. its worth the 1300
you would know it if you see it.

apartment therapy you are rapidly becoming and enemy of design.

Seeing as Gilbert is an employee or artist for bddw, you might as well save it. You have obviously not ever been to this site and frankly most people would never and could never (for the most part) spend 1600 dollars on a freaking round mirror, no matter how well it is made. Pottery Barn is not stealing customers from them, the 2 companies have completely different clienteles.

lab chick.
(or pr person for apartment therapy)
you missed my point.
theres more to design than people just getting stuff cheap.
i assume you think all the fashion knock offs on canal st are ok as well. (thats my industry, though id rather be an artist working for bddw)
its fine that you feel that way but it does make you dumb.

im aware most people cant afford even the pottery barn mirror. (if by "most people" you mean the majority of people that live in the world then the pottery barn mirror is the equivalent of several months salary. both mirrors are pretty ridiculous to "most" people.
but again i wasnt talking about simply getting stuff cheap. i was talking about how its a bummer that no one here seems to care about the situation i described above.

to the people working in factories around the world for pennies making things like the PB mirror its sad.
and when PB is doing it on the backs of other designers
who employ craftsmen for a living wage
its sad to us, whether you can afford original stuff or not.
im generally frustrated when people just want stuff cheap.
(walmart trampling?)
the mirror i own clearly has many hours of hand work in it, and its made in brooklyn. the pottery barn mirror is one of a million stamped out in some exploited country. in the last 20 years ive watched my industry move 99% of its manufacturing overseas a sad loss and then knock offs made by "the pottery barns" and canal st costs design companies more jobs, which cost ad companies and magazines which cost landlords which costs builders etc.
which are regular folks like you and me that buy the pottery barn mirrors. (or save and buy the bddw as patricks post above)

i dont fault you so much
or the consumer.
i fault "the pottery barns" for breaking laws and copying designs and gutting our culture turning it into a "get the look" out of control consumerism and aprtment therapy for being a banner for them.
(o wait, you work for apartment therapy so i do fault you)

gilbertore: Thank you for your comments. I, too, am disgusted with Pottery Barn. Three years ago their Senior VP of Design, Celia Tejada, approached my partner about joining them as VP of Furniture Design, but required her to submit two rounds of 'inspiration boards' showing her design aesthetic for a few different rooms of a house. Funny, one of the images my partner included was the BDDW/Adnet Captain's Mirror. She also included an image of a collection of antique keys that hang on a wall in our home. A few months later the keys showed up in the PB catalog -- although they altered them just enough by interchanging the tops and bottoms so the ends you grasp matched up with different 'tooth' ends from the same set. And now the mirror.

We heard from some people in the design business this is standard procedure for Pottery Barn -- they cast the net looking for design ideas from unsuspecting job candidates and then steal the ideas. Luckily my partner didn't submit any of her own designs. She ended up withdrawing her name from consideration -- thankfully -- and now has her own line of furniture, handmade in the USA by real craftsmen and women. Check out http://www.debraweningerdesign.com