Hanging Mobile

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Mobiles have crept back into the latest crop of design products and trends. Read on to see our edit of the coolest hanging mobiles out right now.

Baby mobiles are one of the smallest details that pack the biggest punch in a nursery. Here we've rounded up the best baby mobiles to snag!

We love this spin on the traditional Chinese paper lantern, the latest in our series with Sizzix!

Here’s a great idea for a DIY art project you can make, inspired by the art of Mark Hearld. Hearld is a British artist whose gorgeous prints, illustrations, and ceramics depict British fauna and flora dancing with color and movement. His installation at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park is a huge flock of painted wood birds suspended over visitors— something I dreamed of hanging in my house. Alas, I’ll have to (happily) make do with this DIY bird mobile I concocted instead.

Mussel Shell Hanging Mobile: A few weeks ago I went to the beach and there were so many mussel shells! Some were teeny and some were giant. I knew I had to do something with them. My mom loves the ocean and her birthday's coming up so I decided to make her a hanging mobile with…

A bronze piece by Brazilian artist Albano Afonso uses multiple sets of dangling hands that mimic shadow puppetry. Titled “Os Pássaros e o Lobo,” or “The Birds and the Wolf,” the sculpture is illuminated by a light projector, casting dark silhouettes on the wall behind it that resembles a mobile of active animals. In a statement, Afonso is described as being “interested in the anatomy of light: its intensity or softness, its ability to both illuminate and obscure, its sources, its symbolic…

Copper Cascade Mobile Beautiful brushed copper takes this classic mobile to the next level. Hangs 33" tall by 19" wide. Made of laser-cut brushed copper shapes, stainless-steel jump rings, and black braided nylon hanging string. No assembly required. Packaged in custom Ekko Workshop kraft-box packaging. Made in Portlan

Floating stars? Water drops? This glass mobile can be whatever you see.

Authentic, innovative and considered design is at the very core of Tigmi so while we would have loved to have crossed the seas to Milan for a sneaky week at Salone del Mobile 2019, our experience of it was lived vicariously through hashtags. Fortunately this technology allows us the veneration of some of the world’s mo