Laurène Guarneri is an Artisan-Designer based in Paris, France.Graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris-Cergy and from the École Supérieure d'Arts & Médias de Caen, she created her studio in 2018. "Her pieces are inspired by fleeting and poetic moments of everyday life, advocating a return to the sensitive. Her mirrors are part of everyday life, bringing with them simplicity and poetry. They draw their inspiration from a simple and refined aesthetic, stimulated by fleeting moments of life, such as sunlight, the colors of the sky, moments of rain ... A curious observation frozen to be kept a little longer."

11H20, the minute the rain stopped

The title is a time of day. Mirror 11H20 records raindrops on a window pane at a given minute, and then refuses to let them dry: every drop is applied by hand onto the silvered glass, so the pattern is never repeated from one mirror to the next. Laurène Guarneri works like this across all three pieces on this page, taking an effect that lasts seconds (a shadow, a drop, a flare of colour) and fixing it in a material that lasts. The Mirror 11H20 comes in two squares, 40 by 40 and 60 by 60 centimetres.

The Mirror Ombrée Clair starts from the shadows and auras objects cast around themselves. Its glass is treated so that the room comes back veiled, closer to a graphite drawing than to a sharp image, and the picture shifts as the daylight moves. 55 by 55 or 40 by 40 centimetres, about 3 centimetres deep. It does the opposite of what a wall mirror usually does in an entrance or a bedroom: instead of doubling the space, it quiets it. The third piece, the Mirror Éclat, brings the only colour: a coral-toned glass returning warm reflections, enough to carry a neutral room on its own.

Laurène Guarneri studied at two French art schools and opened her Paris studio in 2018. Mirrors and glass objects are the whole of the practice, handled with a minimalist, contemplative intent; the stated aim is to make objects that hold a passing moment of light or shadow. Everything is made by hand in France, one mirror at a time, and ships from France. That puts these three pieces in the small group of art mirrors at The Oblist where the glass itself, not the frame, is the work, closer to handmade glass than to furnishing.

Stock on each of the three Laurène Guarneri mirrors is counted in a few units. Architects and interior designers who need a pair of 11H20 for a hotel corridor or an Ombrée Clair for a residential entrance can request them through the Trade Program.