Flensted Bauhaus Mobile
In co-operation with the Bauhaus Museum Flensted Mobiles have created this new mobile. Primary shapes and colours are present: circle, square and triangle ? the Bauhaus code. According to Kandinsky, the circle expressed the highest tension and elasticity, a characteristic which he linked with blue, which emits the most intense level of cold. The square, like red, radiates complete tranquility and has the effect of a cool warmth. The triangle instead represents a tranquil aspiration from the terrestrial to the heavenly. Like yellow, it emanates a powerful force and the greatest warmth. These principles have been used by Ole Flensted in designing this mobile. The suspended lightness of a mobile is particularly appropriate for appreciating the psychological effects of shapes and colours. By juxtaposing the three components in different combinations, the Bauhaus enthusiast and the mobile collector can experience a variety of effect and themselves take part in Kandinsky's research on the phenomenon of colour Kandinsky made a research among his students in 1923 they were to match the primary shapes to primary colours and they produced the same results.
DESIGNED BY:
- Ole Flensted, 2007
MEASUREMENTS:
- Small: 30 x 66.4 cm / 12 x 26 inch
- Large: 40.6 x 96.5 cm / 16 x 38 inch
MATERIALS:
- Wood / Polypropylene
Mobiles are a traditional craft in Denmark, but the modern mobile - as a decoration for the home - was created in 1953 by Christian Flensted and his wife Grethe to celebrate the birth of their first daughter. Their first design, the stork mobile, was a great success, and now flies all over the world. Christian Flensted became known as the "Uromager", a name impossible to translate into English, which means a "maker of mischievous things that are always on the move". Flensted Mobiles are designed that the elements are in constant motion while the entire mobile maintains a harmonic balance.
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