Custom-Designed Mobile for Private Residence in Key Biscayne
Photos of a large custom-designed mobile sculpture for a private residence in Key Biscayne, Florida. By the client’s request, via Venezuelan architect and interior designer Alejandro Barrios Carrero, the mobile is close in style to Alexander Calder‘s work.
A photo of the yet-to-be-painted mobile suspended in my work shop:
Photos of the mobile sculpture installed at the yet-to-be-finished residence (photos of the finished project will follow soon):
In the evening with shadows of the mobile sculpture on the walls and the ceiling:
The sculpture is made of stainless steel and measures 136 inches (345 cm) in diameter and 107 inches (272 cm) in height.
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Contemporary Mobile Sculptures – Expanding Calder’s Art Form – Part 2
This is a continuation in progress (as of 2024) of my previous post Contemporary Mobile Sculptures – Expanding Calder’s Art Form with new mobile sculptures that I’m currently working on:
These are images of 3d models of the mobile sculptures that I’m working on expanding, with the balance point for each part precisely calculated. Each of these mobile sculptures has an interconnected balance structure throughout, just like an Alexander Calder mobile. The balance of each part is determent by the weight of the parts connected to it. This specific mobile sculpture, for example, is made of 51 balanced parts that are connected to each other, resulting in just one suspension point for the whole sculpture:
One of these mobile sculptures here shown with the precisely calculated balance points (103 points in total):
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Original 3 Part Mobile Sculpture
Photos of a custom made mobile, yet to be painted, and based on an additional design idea from a mobile sculpture made for the movie The Upside, which in turn was based on my Mobile 92.
Made out of aluminum and stainless steel and with a diameter of 60 inches / 150 cm, it weighs less than a pound / less than half a kilogram, and therefor moves with the slightest air currents.
Unlike a conventional mobile by Alexander Calder, this is essentially one mobile made of three mobiles. I believe this is quite unique and original, I’ve not seen a mobile like it.
A “fly around” animation of the design:
Painted:
Custom made wooden box for shipping:
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Outdoor Standing Mobile Sculpture for Bahamian Residence
Images of an outdoor standing kinetic mobile sculpture I custom designed and custom made for a private residence in the Bahamas this past winter.
The design:
The residence:
The finished sculpture:
Indoor storage solution for stormy days:
Ready for shipping:
Installed on site:
A painting by David Hockney complementing in dynamics and colors hangs on the wall in the background:
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New Contemporary Original Mobile Sculptures in Progress – Part 2
Additional snapshots of additional new abstract mobile sculptures that I’m currently working on:
Each part in these mobiles is suspended and balanced. The balance structure in each mobile is essentially the same as in an classic Calder mobile, which is basically a whippletree mechanism turned upside down. They are suspended kinetic sculptures, each part is able to move independently with the air currents. They’re all made of steel.
These mobiles may be more contemporary in design, as opposed to some of the larger commissioned mobiles that I’ve made that are inspired by Alexander Calder‘s work (originator of the mobile sculpture) or some of the more mid-century modern mobiles. They also seem to be coming full circle back to some of the very first mobiles I made.
I’ll see your spider and raise you a centipede?
I’m not sure yet what I’ll be doing with these mobiles. Maybe use them as maquettes for larger custom sculptures, or maybe finish them and see about an art gallery show for a change. Either way, they seem to be rather new, contemporary and original (and sometimes gravity defying?) to me, which I’m very excited about.
See New Contemporary Original Mobile Sculptures in Progress – Part 1
See an additional contemporary mobile sculpture
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Photo of large custom mobile for private residence in Long Island
I just received a photo of the large custom hanging mobile I made for a private residence in Long Island, New York, installed.
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via Freudenberger Design Studio (formerly Haus Interior)
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Four new acrylic glass mobiles
Each element in these hanging mobiles can rotate independently full circle.
The circular discs are made of transparent acrylic glass (also known as transparent plexi glass), a type of plastic that looks like glass but does not break.
These mobiles create moving colored circles on the floor, wall or ceiling when a spotlight is pointed at it.
They are only 12 inches / 31 cm tall which makes them ideal for standard 8 foot / 2.4 meter ceilings.
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New Art Mobile 84
Height: 12 inches (31 cm)
Width: 46 inches (117 cm)
Diameter (the circular space the mobile requires to rotate freely full circle): 46 inches (117 cm)
Handmade
Each of the five elements can rotate independently full circle.
The circular discs are made of transparent acrylic glass (also known as transparent plexi glass), a type of plastic that looks like glass but does not break.
The mobile creates moving colored circles on the floor, wall or ceiling when a spotlight is pointed at at it.
This mobile is almost four times as wide, and with its height of only 12 inches (31 cm) makes it ideal for standard 8 foot (2.4 meter) ceilings.
Colors: Yellow, Blue, Gray
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New Art Mobile – Mobile 82
Height: 41 inches – 104 cm
Width: 46 inches – 117 cm
Diameter (the circular space it requires to freely rotate): 70 inches – 178 cm
Made with unpainted sheet metal, wire, unpainted washers, and rivets
Custom colors free of charge upon request
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How To Make Mobiles:
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- FAQ Mobile Making -
- MAKE Magazine Article -