ASHKAL Mirror Collection by Richard Yasmine for SURSOCK Museum Beirut.

Lebanese interior architect and product designer, Richard Yasmine, has created a limited edition mirror collection for the SURSOCK Museum in Beirut.

Titled ASHKAL, the collection is a “reconstruction of the reflection of human soul”, creating a nostalgic but contemporary design object. The mirrors allow the users to dive into their own memories, transporting them to the old era of the early 60s when SURSOCK Museum first opened its doors.

ASHKAL, meaning shapes or faces, mimics pure geometric shapes – a circle, a square, a rectangle, an oval, a pentagon and a triangle – as if each one was extracted from a stained glass window that decorates the façade of the museum. Each piece is made from mirrored-polished stainless steel sitting on base made out of marble, brass or metal. The extremely thin hand-mirror appear to cut a slice out of it’s solid bases, creating an image of a surreal oversized cutting knife.

[Photography by BizarreBeirut.]