The Shagri-La II convex mirror is an updated version of an older creation of mine. This version has multiple layers of russet, gold and raw umber transparent Venetian glass rods adding significant depth and richness. The “satellites” of gold and garnet colored stars were made by me.
The Shangri-La convex mirror is being shipped to my New York City venue, KRB. For more information call 212-288-2221.
Shangri-La measures about 18 inches in diameter.
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Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains. Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise, particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia – a permanently happy land, isolated from the world. In the novel, the people who live at Shangri-La are almost immortal, living hundreds of years beyond the normal lifespan and only very slowly aging in appearance. The name also evokes the imagery of the exoticism of the Orient.
In the book/movie a cross section of Hollywood character types crash into a mountain in the Himalayas and stumble into Shangri-La. Culture clashes, love affairs and spiritual redemption ensue.
Thanks Wikipedia for the above nutshell!
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