I wanted a unique mirror that didn't cost a lot. It had to match chrome, but not look inexpensive (cheap). I searched everywhere until I found this mirror. All the other chrome frames, in my price range, just looked inexpensive. This mirror is a unique glass frame put through a special process. It is unlike anything I had seen anywhere. The frame is slumped glass. Glass slumping is bending or slumping glass into or over a mold.Generally glass is slumped into ceramic molds & bent over metal molds.To achieve this, glass is taken through a few heating & cooling phases. Recommendation: The mirror is very heavy. My husband added a piece of wood attached to the wall, at the bottom of the mirror, so it would have support at the top and bottom. June, 2011