Design Trend of the Month: Disco Mirror

We are living in a feedback loop of distorted reality, so let's look for joy everywhere.

Halle Berry always brings it on the red carpet, and her Oscars look was definitely tapped in — an organic mirror ball motif that screams you ARE the party.

To me, the entire mirror thing can be read in a few ways:

• Are we all living in a Black Mirror reality where nothing is as it seems and technology is destroying the fabric of human connection?

• Or is it all about a return of 1970s style, disco culture, and a desire to have some joy, ANY JOY, at a time when it seems hard to find?

• Maybe is it all just a reflection of everyone’s obsession with themselves a kind of here-you-go-Narcissus moment?

• Or is it an f-you to paparazzi, shining the flash back at them?

Here are some other ways to bring mirror ball magic to a room

Digital Art Prints

My friend Jess of Hold That Punch makes digital art prints featuring mirror ball motifs, like this framed cowboy hat in a home’s entrance. I really believe that the first thing you see inside a home sets the tone for how a home dweller wants to feel about themselves, and this one says: “Dazzle me, life!” Change up the frame to suit and it can fit pretty much anywhere.

Mushroom decor

Have we reached peak mushroom yet? Probably not. It’s a fabulous form in all of its incarnations (there’s an entire mushroom shop at Terrain) and there is a mushroom to suit every style mood. Mushroom mirrors are really everywhere, even at Wal-Mart (ew) but this is the original one by Sofiest Designs, likely the highest quality you can find.

WTF moments

Happy mirror moments!