Shout out to Cole, our favorite person right now, for to his ability to string together shapes for hours on end without compliant. Thanks to him, the end is (finally!) in sight for the Jacksonville mobile fabrication.
All Classical Birds
Next week, we’re installing these birds into the new offices of All Classical Radio, which is just down the street from our shop space. The birds are an abstract version of the Vaux’s swift, a species of bird that roost our neighborhood each September during their fall migration. The birds incorporate the colors of All Classical’s logo, and the birds will span the office space’s ceiling. We’re thrilled to be doing such a fun project for a local organization!
Hexagons
Our contract prevents us from sharing too many details about this particular project, but let’s just say we’ll be up to our eyeballs in hexagons this winter. This project involves a handful of 50-foot-tall mobiles that will incorporate lots of hexagons. Check back for progress pics!
Jacksonville Hanging Mobile Progress
Just coming up for air to say we’re making progress on stringing together those 310 strands. Here, they’re neatly wrapped and labeled to make installation a breeze*.
*Correction: Matt and Ben say installations are never a breeze. But hey, here’s to optimism!
Jacksonville Hanging Mobile Materials
In March, we showed renderings of a wall mural mobile we’re making in collaboration with artist Daniel Goldstein for a corporate office building in Jacksonville, Florida. We’re also making the client a ceiling sculpture that will include 310 stands of 2,500 shapes. Below are the materials that we will spend every waking moment stringing together during the coming weeks. Wish us luck—and see you on the other side!
Round Rock Hospital Ceiling Sculpture Material
SMU Peruna Sculpture
We got this picture last month from our clients showing the SMU Peruna sculpture in the nearly completed space. Their very kind email said that during a hard-hat tour with key stake holders, the piece “got a lot of ‘wows’” and “lots of gasps” and that it was “definitely a show piece.” Aw shucks, we love that kind of feedback.
We’re hoping to catch a glimpse of the sculpture during this college football season!
Oslo Public Library
Matt and his wife just returned from a trip to Norway where they hiked, visited museums, saunaed, and cold plunged into fjords. But one highlight was visiting Oslo’s Deichman Bjørvika Public Library where Matt admired delightful and inspiring things hanging from the ceilings.
Children's Hospital of Georgia Mobile
Here’s a rendering of a classic-style mobile in our queue. This will span 20 feet in the newly renovated lobby of Children’s Hospital of Georgia in Augusta. Colors are still to be determined, but no matter what the client chooses, it should look amazing in that gorgeous space! Install is scheduled for spring of 2025, so stay tuned for updates.
Tori Richard Hanging Mobile
We try not to play favorites, but we will NEVER complain about an installation that takes us to Hawaii. For this one, we installed a series of 60 mobiles in the brand-new flagship Tori Richard clothing store on Waikiki’s main strip.
The mobiles cover a 30-foot space, swirling beneath the entryway’s skylight and trailing into the retail area. For the shapes, we used a combination of mango wood (a wood native to Hawaii) and an acrylic with a shoji paper finish. Each shape was installed onto a small bearing that allows the shapes to gently rock back and forth, mimicking the nearby ocean waves.
If you’re in Honolulu, be sure to check it out (and admire—or treat yo’self to—all that beautiful Tori Richard apparel)!
