The store tour, past the cafe with books dangling from mobiles (book mobiles?), through sections labeled gender, ideas, drugs, graphic novels and pets, arrives at Ms. McNally's grand gambit against the e-book pestilence: a print-right-now bookmaker called the Espresso Book Machine, the only one in New York City (worldwide, there are about 80).
There's the sound of wind chimes, and homemade mobiles dangling from the ceiling, and photos of a visit to an amusement park.
The pieces join together and the dolls float into the girl's memory, which is imagined by the illustrator Rebecca Cobb in an image of heartfelt delicacy: a forest wrapped with bunting and filled with sunflowers, white mice, a cat-shaped birthday cake, a mobile of dangling stars – and a kind granny knitting beneath a tree.
A mobile dangled over the crib, and the changing table was stocked with diapers and wipes.
He dangled a dancing mobile with plastic Winnie the Pooh characters — again, nothing scary, but something new.
Inside, the rooms are gracious, the views sweeping, the art expensive (above the sofa on which we're perched, there dangles an Alexander Calder mobile).
From the ceiling dangles a mobile — "I got the idea from Calder," he said — assembled from metal sheets, metal rods and a few paper clips from the stationery store around the corner.
Snowflake mobiles dangled from the ceiling.
Jason Dodge's installation of bent rods dangling over a broken mirror refers to a mobile by the modernist designer Harry Bartoia.
The seats vibrate, it plays music; they've got, like, mobiles of fish or giraffes or whatever dangling above.
