Wall mirror- Space Age – Veca Style - smoked glass - Mirror and shelf set, 1970s

Original bathroom set dated November 7, 1973, in perfect Space Age style, made in Italy (in the style of Veca or Fontana Arte), late-1960s/first-half-of-the-1970s vintage. It consists of a medium-to-large mirror in smoky green glass (also known as pine green or forest green, very much in vogue at the time), with the typical rounded, raised Space Age shape; a large matching front shelf made from the same glass as the mirror; and two sets of two matching glass plates each (four in total), designed to conceal from view any brackets used to anchor the front shelf to the wall. All four green glass plates come with their original silver-colored metal bolts. What makes this set interesting, besides how rare it is to find a complete set, is its excellent overall condition and the fact that the back of the mirror has no defects such as desilvering or other damage, and bears the original production date stamp, November 7, 1973. This confirms that it was made in Italy, as the date is written in Italian, and makes it an even more interesting piece, since such sets rarely bear dates.
As our family once owned a well-known company in northern Italy that produced vintage-style bathroom furnishings, we still have many sets and other furnishings that were made especially by glassworks such as Cristal Arte to match the rest of the furniture produced by our company, Nicolini Arredo Bagno, which closed in the 1990s. The set is substantial in size: the mirror measures 69 cm high and 48 cm wide; the front shelf, almost 1 cm thick, is 60 cm long and 12 cm deep; and each of the shelf-anchor covers measures 24 cm long and 6 cm high.
In addition to the excellent overall condition of the entire set, I would only note that the shelf has a small chip in the glass near the steel part from which the wall plugs protrude for mounting it to the wall. This is not visible when it is installed beneath the mirror. There are also a few light surface scratches, visible in the photos.
The collector's value of the complete set with its original date is estimated at between €300 and €550. A member of our family is a scholar of 20th-century design who attends the Milan Academy and is familiar with the major Italian auction houses, so we are confident in this estimated value.