Faux bamboo was the height of fashion once, ordinary wood dressed up to look like something more exotic than it was. Found in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, the mirror is framed in turned wood carved into bamboo joints and knuckles, then painted a soft olive green that is far less common than the usual natural or gilded finish. The style took hold in France in the second half of the 19th century, when trade with Japan reopened and everything East Asian became desirable, and European makers turned beech to imitate a cane they could not easily grow. Sylvie hangs it in a small room where the green does all the talking, the kind of color you do not come across twice.
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