trending: mercury glass for the holidays
Have you noticed the growing love affair with mercury glass? There’s something about it that’s very romantic, vintage-like and fabulously festive with its elegant sparkle. Try arranging vases or candlesticks in groupings in front of a table top mirror using different shapes and sizes. For a beautiful dining table setting, fill a large mercury glass bowl with magnolia leaves and mercury glass ornaments. And welcome your dinner guests with name cards slipped into silver ornament placeholders.
Add just the right amount of shimmer to your mantel garland with a set of mercury glass owls. Fill a little vase with a couple of pine branches and set in your powder room with a flickering candle.
Did you know Mercury Glass, also known as Silvered Glass, is double-walled glassware with silver coating inside the walls that dates back to 1849 in England? No mercury, simply a silver nitrate solution. A clever invention that has rebounded in a big way!
- About the boutique
Using the soothing color palette of a coconut by the sea—whites, neutrals and splashes of turquoise—Coco Blanca has created a trademark look. Her lifestyle boutique offers expert solutions for home design and women’s fashion—blending a clean, fresh, sophisticated, feel-good style.
210 South Union Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703.535.8002
