F.02

The object

What you get

The steel frame. Your glazier cuts and sets the glass to the drawing that ships with it. In Portland and Vancouver we supply the glass and set it ourselves.

Nothing is cut before you approve the drawing. The approved drawing is what both sides are holding.

The shadow is yours to set

The backing is not ours to supply. It only affects looks: every ⅛″ of backing you leave out adds ⅛″ of shadow around the glass.

Where a 40 × 40 goes

A square is the piece that stops reading as a mirror and starts reading as art. Forty by forty is large enough to hold a wall on its own and small enough not to dominate one, which puts it over a credenza, at the top of a stair, or in a dining room where a tall rectangle would fight the table. Squares also pair well — two of them on a long wall look deliberate in a way two rectangles rarely do. It is the least expensive piece in the collection because a square uses the least angle for the area it encloses.

The section, exactly

Every piece in the collection uses the same member. One leg stands off the wall, the other lies flat against it, and the glass rests down inside the L on the back leg — so the room sees only the ⅛″ edge of the standing leg while the frame stands 1½″ proud of the wall.

Glass, and who cuts it

Glass for the F.02 is cut to 39½ × 39½″ — the frame opening less ¼″ overall, which leaves ⅛″ of clearance on each side. Who supplies it depends on where the piece is going and whether it hangs.

Finish and fabrication

Powder coat, matte black or warm white. Corners are mitered at 45° on a fiber laser, welded by hand and ground flush, so no seam and no weld bead is visible at the joint — which is the whole reason the frame reads as one continuous line of steel rather than four pieces meeting. Cut, welded and finished in Vancouver, Washington.

Made to order, so nothing is stocked and nothing is cut before you approve the drawing. Transit damage and any mismatch with the approved drawing are covered, freight both ways, reported within 48 hours.

Questions

How big is the F.02 frame, and what size glass does it take?

The frame is 40 × 40 inches on the outside. Glass is cut to 39½ × 39½ inches — the frame opening less ¼ inch overall, leaving ⅛ inch of clearance per side so the glass sets into the L without binding.

Why is the square cheaper than the smaller F.01?

Because price follows the length of angle, not the area of the opening. A 40 × 40 square encloses more wall than a 36 × 48 but needs about 13 feet of steel against roughly 14, so it costs less to make. A square is simply the most efficient shape you can build out of a perimeter.

What does the F.02 weigh?

About 16 pounds of steel — roughly 13 feet of 1½ × 1½ × ⅛ inch hot-rolled angle at about 1.23 pounds per foot, before glazing.

Does $775 include the mirror?

No. $775 is the steel frame only. Your glazier cuts and sets the glass to the drawing that ships with the frame. In Portland and Vancouver we supply and set the glass ourselves.

How long does an F.02 take?

Two weeks to ship from the day the drawing is approved. Nothing is cut before you approve it.

The other three sizes

Same 1½″ angle, same corners, same finish — only the proportion changes. Price follows the length of steel in the perimeter, which is why the square is the least expensive piece and the six-footer the most. Any size is made to order; these four are the catalogue.

Every dimension, tolerance and finish is on the specification page — the reference to hand a glazier or put in a drawing set.

Order F.02

$775, frame only. Send your name and a number and we come back inside twenty-four hours with a drawing and a delivered price. Crated and shipped from Vancouver, Washington.