New Zealand's Definitive Design Destination

Anyone hungry? These fleshy volumnous sculptures by artist Erwin Wurm would make the ideal corporate or delivery vehicle for McDonalds.

Situated on 'The Park' the private art park of one of New Zealand's greatest art patrons  - Alan Gibbs, Neil Dawson's Horizons sculpture is an incredible optical illusion that has an almost animated cartoon like feel to it.

This vibrant and colourful installation is the combined effort of Cut Collective and architectural graduate Jasper Middleton (who currently works at Fearon Hay Architects). Created for Splore - a summer festival dedicated to art and culture (which begins today) south of Auckland at Tapapakanga Regional Park, Middleton says he wanted to  'provide something that took sculpture into the realm of the user, and provided a truly engaging experience that blurred the line between art and architecture.'

Despite its faceted and interlocking surfaces, it was purposefully designed to be able to fit together from a single component in order to minimise construction costs and to ease the process of relocation.

Japanese Sculptor Sayaka Kajita Ganz who currently resides in Fort Wayne, Indiana - creates these sculptures out of pre-loved goods. It's important to her that she uses materials that have once had previous homes - as she feels it gives life to her sculptures. We'd agree with her.

Who knew a bus stop could stay upright and look like this. French artist Baptiste Debombourg experiments with how objects look as they break down. The result? Sculptures and paintings that literally appear to be fading or crumbling away at the point of ruin.

New Zealand based sculptor Gregor Kregar's work covers numerous mediums. We are particularly drawn to these geometric forms constructed from mirrors. You can view these works at the Brick Bay Sculpture Trail.

The Singing Ringing Tree is a wind powered sculpture set in the landscape of the Pennine mountain range overlooking Burnley in Lancashire. Designed by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu of Tonkin Liu, the three metre tall construction comprises pipes of galvanised steel which harness the energy of the wind to produce a slightly discordant and penetrating choral sound covering a range of several octaves. Some of the pipes are primarily structural and aesthetic elements, while others have been cut across their width enabling the sound. The harmonic and singing qualities of the tree were produced by tuning the pipes according to their length by adding holes to the underside of each.

These perfect bookends by Eric Janssen are composed of a synthetic rubber-coated concrete core.  Get them here.

Ricky Swallow creates these amazing sculptures out of Jelutong wood. The detailing and precision work enables ordinary wood to look like a whole manner of materials.

These incredible works are recreated true to size sculptures made from cardboard by sculptor Chris Gilmour.

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Arik Levy released a new product for company Flora at Maison & Objet in September this year. Titled 'Comb-Ination', the honeycomb structure allows plants to climb and twist. Modular in shape, it can be configured differently to suit each environment and because of its sculptural form, it looks almost as good standing alone, as when adorned with plants.

Sculptor Nick Van Woert uses equal parts of humour and talent in creating his unconventional busts. His use of mixed and colourful materials adds an almost macabre by generally humourous touch to the otherwise traditional art of sculpting busts.

Visual artist Claire Morgan, born in Belfast and now based in London, creates these stunning sculptures. Working predominantly with natural and organic materials, there is often a theme of birds throughout her work. We like the movement in her work, there is a suggestion that it's fluid, and ever changing.

She is now working on a selection of fixed and temporary commissions for public spaces.

Growing up in the island of the south pacific, including New Zealand, French artist Jim Skull developed a passion for oceanic style art forms. His recent works include these stunning skulls that use electrical wires for an impressive effect.

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Chilean sculptor Livia Marin takes mass-produced and mass-consumed objects and turns them into precious and uniquely hand crafted works of art for a stunning outcome.