You’ve seen them, I know you have. The sad, mirrored walls, or maybe sliding closet doors, the ones that were intended to be signs of disco-era extravagance but that can now read a a little sad and tawdry. They’re all over a certain kind of ’70s and ’80s condo. I always thought that mirrored walls were just plain bad. I thought that until I started doing research for this post, and discovered that actually, mirrored walls can look very nice.

As a model, Georgia May Jagger is accustomed to looking at herself, although this was not why she chose to have mirrored walls in one of the bathrooms of her London home. She is, however, very on trend. You cannot fix your make-up in the green-hued panels of antiqued mirror glass, but it

Valerian Rybar's Sutton Home master bath

It plays out like a black-and-white movie

Mirrored wall