Chrome isn't new. It never really left.
There's a narrative going around that chrome has disappeared for twenty years and just came back in 2026. It's true that it became more relevant as of 2026, but that's not quite what happened.
It never left the room
RUSSH Magazine put it well recently: chrome has been part of interior design for decades, it just wasn't always the centre of attention. Think of the USM Haller system, Charlotte Perriand's revolving armchair, Marcel Breuer's Wassily Chair. None of these ever went out of style among people who actually know furniture. What is changing now, is that chrome is showing up again outside that world too. On Instagram feeds, in new homeware collections, on kitchen benches and candle holders and coffee cups that used to be ceramic or wood. Common homes with a modern interior style such as Japandi or Boho interior used to repel chrome, but even these households are starting to introduce stainless steel and chrome as well.
Dutch interior sites are picking up on the same shift. Luxe Wonen recently wrote about it from a slightly different angle: after years of everything defaulting to brass, brass lost what made it interesting in the first place. When every new build and every bathroom renovation uses the same warm gold tone, it becomes just another brass element, and it stops standing out. Chrome does something brass can't. It reflects light in a sharper, cooler, more precise way, which is exactly why it works so well next to dark materials like walnut, dark marble or charcoal concrete.
RTL Boulevard covered this too, if you want to see it in video form.
The cold complaint
Everyone who's skeptical about chrome typically says the same thing: it feels cold. That's a fair concern, and it's mostly about how it's used, not the material itself. An entire kitchen in chrome will feel clinical. One object in chrome, next to something warm like wood, marble or linen, does the opposite. It gives a room a point of contrast instead of a point of coldness.
A word most people get wrong
"Chrome" as a trend rarely means actual chrome plating. Most of what's driving this is polished stainless steel, which looks similar but behaves completely differently over time. Chrome plating wears, chips, shows its age. Stainless steel, especially at higher grades like 304, holds its finish for years and provides a durable build. This is a distinction that's often overlooked, and certainly not a small distinction if you're actually buying something for your home.
Where this leaves us
We didn't design the Lumevre convex mirror because chrome was trending. We designed it because a convex mirror in polished 304 stainless steel does something flat surfaces can't do: it bends a room instead of just showing it back to you. The trend just happens to be catching up to a material we already believed in.
One object, positioned right, does more for a room than people expect.