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Daniel Eatock cheekily combines two independent objects into a new one, and in the process, imparts a certain Dadaist quality into our everyday objects.

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Chicken or the eggshells? By Kyle Bean. See more of his amazing work here and here.

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Creating the effect of breaking open huge boulders to reveal their shiny chrome insides, Jim Hodges merged stainless steel with raw rock in a most mesmerising way. via Walker Art Centre.

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By carving bowling balls into trophy architecture books, artist Eddy Sykes makes a comment on how most coffee table books are made for display and not for reading anyway. Wouldn’t you just love having these gently rock away on your bookshelf?

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Born in 1926, Ruth Asawa’s work of iconic crocheted wire sculptures are modern beyond their time, and yet at the same time possesses the delicate craft aspect that makes them strangely alluring.

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Japanese Maze designer/architect/artist Takanori Aiba creates incredibly detailed tiny worlds that makes me wish I was the size of a pinhead.

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Trained as an engineer by profession, Arthur Ganson’s curiosity and sense of wonder allows him to see the humour and beauty in everyday objects, interfaced with the precision and coldness of a machine. All these cumulating in kinetic sculptures like the ‘Machine with Wishbone’, where a chicken wishbone walks and pulls along a machine; or as a ‘Machine with Grease’, where a machine continuously ‘ejaculates’ the one thing that makes any machine happy — Grease!

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Studio Roso created this beautiful Christmas tree, commissioned by V&A. Made up of 3.3 miles of elastic cord and over 4 meters in height, this tree features a total of 1500 individual strands of cords coming together with ge0metric shapes that resembles Christmas ornaments to form a beautiful Christmas tree.




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Banky’s newest work, Cardinal Sin, is a pixelated sculpture of a 18-century stone bust of a priest on display at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool.


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British architect Ian McChesney produced a series of sculptures named ‘Blaze’ along roadside verges of the A66 in Middlesbrough, resembling rolling hills ablaze with the sun, all gold and shimmering.

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Escher-like rollercoaster stairway sculpture by German artists Heike Mutter and Ulrich Genth in Duisburg, Germany. I wonder if I run fast enough I can go loop-the-loop!

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This is a modern classic porcelain vase with a little twist by the people at Front for moooi.

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The gently undulating and amazingly constructed sculptures made from dice, by English-born, German-based artist Anthony Cragg.

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Perhaps a sculptural piece from Irirs Van Herpen for next year’s Halloween Ball…

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Any diver would attest to the excitement and awe of a school of glittering fishes synchronise swimming an arms length away. Now anyone can experience that sensation with Richard Howie’s stunning sculpture as part of Australia’s Swell Sculpture Festival. via My Modern Met

 

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ADA – Analog Interactive Installation, is a kinetic sculpture by German-based artist Karina Smigla-Bobinski. Helium inflated sphere + Small room + Protruding charcoal spikes + Human interaction = Art that we like. (images from thisiscolossal.com )

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Set in the middle of the Lake Constance in Austria for the Bregenz Festival “Opera on the Lake”, this stage looks more like one of Dali’s artwork than a performance venue. Designed for “Andre Chenier” by Umberto Giordano, the figure of the head is from Jacques-Louis David’s 1793  painting, “The death of Marat”. Within the set design is also a 7-meter high golden mirror that acts as a venue for extras and stuntmen, as well as an old book held in the hand of Marat as a stage for the singers.

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Design Office Takebayashi Scroggin (or D.O.T.S.) made this amazing shell of a bear using nothing but 20,000 cable-ties for the  Beaux Arts Ball, yet manage to capture its spirit and even made it furry looking. Photographs by GLINTstudios.

Massimals are 1:1 design objects that serve as prototypes to examine how physical form can engage the public realm. These constructs are mass abstractions of animal forms fabricated in systematic fashion from one material. The suggestive forms and their specific arrangement imply docile behavior similar to animals in a petting zoo augmenting the way visitors approach and engage built form.

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Paige Bradley created a masterpiece, entitled Expansion, which shows a beautiful woman seeking inner piece but fractured and bleeding with light.

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I am quite enthralled by the layers and colours of Aaron Moran’s work.

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