Remember the cardboard model we mentioned back in March? Here's the final product. This is for a fellow in California whose home has a lot of copper elements, so we incorporated a good mix of copper, silver, and black shapes into this original design. The piece hangs 9 feet wide by 6 feet tall and moves freely with the slightest current.
Seeking a Good Home
In this photo, Matt is making final adjustments on a scaled-down mobile model we recently pitched to a local library. The library folks opted for something much less modern, so now this new design needs a good home. Any takers? The final piece was designed to be 18 feet tall by 10 feet wide, but we can tweak dimensions (and colors and just about everything else) to suit your space. Let us know!
Glamour Shots
Our friends at the Rockingham Hospital sent along these photos. Aren't they lovely?
(Man, photography skills make us jealous.)
Our Neighbors to the North
Here's a mobile we shipped to Canada a few weeks back. It hangs 12 feet tall by 4 feet wide and will reside in a Tortonto office building.
The Good, The Bad, and the Beautiful
The Good: The Rockingham mobile made it safely to Harrisonburg. So did Matt and Ben.
The Bad: The installation proved trickier than anticipated. Matt and Ben had to install mounting points above the drop-grid ceiling. As pictured below, they spent a lot of time in the underbelly (or rather upperbelly?) of the hospital. In the end, the install required working 40 nonstop hours. 40 hours! (It's tiring just thinking about that.)
The Beautiful: The mobile. We're so happy with it!
Harrisonburg or Bust
Well, our Rockingham mobile is officially en route to Harrisonburg, Virginia. To streamline things, we crated and shipped it directly from our powder coater’s shop. It’s hard to tell in that last photo whether Matt’s (temporary) farewell to the piece is teary, nerve-wracked, or just plain relieved…
The Model
We’ve squeezed a custom mobile for a private residence into our production schedule. Here’s the cardboard model we threw together to figure out sizing and balancing points. Cardboard on wood paneling is quite the combo, no?
Busy Bees
If you have 1 minute, 39 seconds to spare, check out this stop-motion video of the Rockingham dry run installation. To be honest, the speed and efficiency at which Matt and Ben are working isn’t all that exaggerated.
Rockingham Dry Run
We’re in the depths of the production process on the mobile for Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Virginia. We just did a trial run in our shop. As you might notice in the photos, we built a wooden frame to hang them from so we wouldn’t have to mess with creating a bajillion mounting points from our shop ceiling.
The entire piece doesn’t fit in our shop, but the half that does gave us a good idea of what we’ll be up against at the actual installation.
Real Simple
Wouldn't you know it? In its April issue, Real Simple happens to call mobiles a "trend worth trying." We agree. Be sure to check out page 44 to see a lovely Red Circles Mobile by Ekko Mobiles!