Chamber psyche from the Umbertine era
If you are not lucky enough to have inherited it in your family, you can still find one of the furnishing accessories in the antique markets which caused the greatest furore in Europe during the 19th century:the psyche .
Ever heard of it?
However, I am sure, you all know the appearance:in fact, this term indicated a particular model of oscillating mirror, which could be from the floor or table, invented at the end of the 1700s and which had great fortune in the following century, so much so that there was probably not a single house in which at least one example was not present.
The shape of the piece of furniture was rather simple and linear, since it generally consisted of a mirror enclosed within a wooden frame fixed, by means of pivot screws, to two lateral uprights which in turn rested on shaped supports; sometimes there was a drawer at the bottom.
Widely used in England, however, the psyche experienced its heyday in France during the Empire , an era of which beautiful examples still remain today, such as the one created by Jacob designed by Percier currently preserved in the Castle of Compiègne .
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