Last year when we visited Kumu in Tokyo, we picked up this beautiful mobile, which currently hangs over Howell’s crib, accompanied by (and complimentary to) a Junpei Ori painting. Every baby needs a mobile, and we like to buy mobiles that can be enjoyed long past babyhood.

This particular piece caught our eye because it’s so delicate yet balanced, and its movement was so subtle.

I was particularly excited when the designer of the mobile contacted us via email, because she is actually a follower of the blog and read that we had bought her piece. Having lived in Japan, Annett shares our affinity for the Northern spirit and aesthetic.

Currently based in Portugal she picks up bits’n’pieces for the mobiles during long walks on the beach and in the streets of Lisbon.

Here are some descriptions of the mobiles she currently has up on her website:

room poetry made of found objects 
in a silent conversation with air and light

a kinetic sculpture composed with found material 
fragile metals and stones transformed by the ocean