Cool way to display artwork, photos, etc.

Packard

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In this Blum video they display various objects on two thin stranded steel cables.  I can’t tell the diameter, but certainly less than 1/8” and maybe less than 1/16”.

At location starting about 38 seconds and extending for about 10 seconds, they show artwork suspended from the same cables using small (rare earth?) magnets.  A very cool minimalist way to display art on paper.
 
[member=74278]Packard[/member] That stuff does make some interesting display installations. There are several vendors for the systems. They are used a lot in retail and sometimes museum settings.

If you search for "wire display system" or "cable display system" you'll get quite a few hits. Here are a couple.
https://www.artdisplay.com/griplock-wire-hanging-system.html
https://novadisplay.com/display-systems-accessories/cable-display-systems/

Similar parts are sometimes used to hang chandeliers and pendants and they can appear to floating.

Ron
 
Picture frame hanging wire attached to a wood bar at the ceiling, and another at the bottom to weigh it down, and you have it.

I have hundreds of feet of picture frame wire, unfortunately most of it is non-magnetic, being repurposed fishing line and made from stainless steel.  The balance is premium wire that is vinyl-clad and will not stick to a magnet.
 
It's been a while since I have used those, but over the years there have been several jobs with different types of wire/cable displays.
The only one I have pics of (and they are really bad) was the very first job I had to rebuild after the fire, so August of 19. There were 6 of these units. The went into information centers of city Metro-Parks. I had just finished them, had them prepped to be delivered the next day.
The one I have the installed pic of, is very close to my house. I stopped by to do a punch-list item for that job, since it was on the way home. The have upper and lower mounting points, plus some stand-offs in the middle to keep the glass shelves from wobbling.
The ones in the center section have acrylic holders for pictures. They are just a folded sheet that is closed at the bottom, held by the sides and the images can be lowered into them.
It's kind of an erector set of a million parts. You have to cut the cables to a fairly exacting length and crimp a stop onto them, which takes some special tools.
Again sorry for the bad pics. Sadly, I have quite a few project pics that look like that, before replaced that phone. There are years worth of jobs that I don't have anything, since it was before decent phone cameras. I had a little digital camera that I took in once in a while, for bigger things. It just wasn't as easy as it is now.
 

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The Griplock system uses 3/64” stainless cable. NovaDisplay uses 1.5mm or 3mm stainless cable.

Back in the ‘80’s when I was working in special effects (before that was assumed to involve computers) we hung miniature space ships etc. with tungsten wire, sometimes just 1/1000th” diameter.
 
Michael Kellough said:
The Griplock system uses 3/64” stainless cable. NovaDisplay uses 1.5mm or 3mm stainless cable.

Back in the ‘80’s when I was working in special effects (before that was assumed to involve computers) we hung miniature space ships etc. with tungsten wire, sometimes just 1/1000th” diameter.

Fish wire works also really well in the Griplock grippers for a "floating" effect.
 
I use to use black plastic coated stainless steel fish wire for picture frame hanging.  But no magnetic pull.
 
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