Germans Ermičs & Boris Berlin

Black Mirror is a circular table in glass and mirror by Latvian designer, Germans Ermičs and Russian-born designer, Boris Berlin. Through a masterful color gradation from 0% – 100% black on a glass and mirror surface, the table subtly changes, according to the surrounding light, shapes and point of view. The precise geometric form, combined with a perfect finish and refined flow from clear mirror to opaque black glass, makes the table particularly attractive and visually light, as the base hardly seems to reach the floor, fading into its own reflection.

The idea of duality is key to Boris Berlin: The clearest way to perceive and define the world is through negation, through opposites. We understand the meaning of light when it becomes dark, we first understand what our parents mean for us when they are gone… Chromatic expression as the driving force of design is characteristic of Germans Ermičs’ vocabulary: I choose very simple geometric shapes and transform their cold, linear geometry into elements of unprecedented depth, opening the way for a world of new interpretations. The color becomes the element that generates the meaning of the form, transforming the pure geometry of material into an expressive object…Boris Berlin and Germans Ermičs previously collaborated on the poetic table/bench Presence Absence which was made in 2017 for the exhibition “Side By Side Outside” at Designmuseum Danmark.