Large Custom Calder-Style Mobile Installation in Buenos Aires

These are photos I recently received from a client. I made a 12 feet (3.5 meter) tall Calderesque mobile for his two story atrium. I previously posted photos of this mobile at a local park a day after it snowed. After taking those pictures, I disassembled the mobile and pack it small enough so that it could be taken onto an airplane. Then the mobile was reassembled on location in Buenos Aires by the client’s assistant, Jorge:

The shapes (paddles) had to be reattached and the new rivets needed to be painted.

Mini-pulley system for the roof designed by Jorge to raise the mobile:

The design of the mobile:

Measurements of the atrium:

The design of the mobile photoshopped into pictures of the space (the colors for the mobile had yet to be decided at this point):

Photos of the installed mobile:

From the client: “The mobile is truly beautiful! [It] lives up to our expectations – which were inordinately high! The wonderful thing we discovered is the full meaning of the word ‘mobile’. With the advent of winter, we have turned on the heat on occasion. What that causes is real movement — almost a revolution per minute as the warm air floats upward. At night, with the lights on, the shadows play across the wall as well. Beautiful!”