Off-Cut Timber Mobiles by Mentsen

Beautifully crafted by London based design studio Mentsen, the Off-Cut timber mobiles are created from left-over wood from the duo's creation of prototypes and production pieces. Shaped and balanced to perfection, each piece plays with the elements - moving and dancing with the wind. 

First presented during 3daysofdesign, only an hand-full remain, with each piece unique and one-of-a-kind. Explore them online now.

Mentsen is a partnership between Japanese designers Yasuyuki Sakurai and Risa Sano, and a London based practice founded in 2011 working somewhere between craft and industrial design. The studio name, meaning ‘lines and surfaces’ in Japanese, references the studio’s work in different mediums and scales; from furniture and product design to one-off handmade objects and flat works.

The mobiles are balanced sculptural forms born out of the waste of Mentsen's larger design projects. Rather than discarding these small wooden elements, the London duo has instead brought them back to life - combining them in a way that celebrates the imperfections of natural materials.

“Timber, once part of a unique tree, possesses distinctive features such as knots, colouring or cracks, rendering them unsuitable for certain applications.”
- Mentsen