Ditch your kids’ ugly plastic play set and instead hook up a custom bronze playground from Brooklyn-based sculptor Tom Otterness. Playground (shown above) stands 30 feet tall and was constructed as a private commission by the artist in 2007. The bronze play structure features three slides, a swing set and multiple guarded platforms.
[via Marc Ecko]
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Over the past two days we’ve come across a variety of fantastic fire features, but none has impressed us as much as artist Anne Colombo’s outrageously innovative fire sculptures. Trained as a classical sculptor, Anne Colombo heads the Brooklyn-based Colombo Construction Company (CCC), a full-service conceptual design and fabrication firm specializing in large-scale fire, water and wind works. The company works with clients to create site-specific sculptures that are baller beyond belief. With each fire sculpture Colombo helps to “restore the hearth as a ceremonial place and as a point of convergence,” the function it’s served for the past 600,000 years with the exception of the last 100 or so.
Since Anne Colombo’s work stands for itself, we’ve chosen a large selection of our favorite fire sculptures from CCC’s 2008 collection to highlight in our image gallery below. Each fire sculpture carries a set price tag, with works starting at $4,000 and ranging up to $85,000.
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If you’re looking to make an absurd novelty addition to your yard, drinkstuff.com has the perfect product: a life-sized, $57,000 Tyrannosaurus Rex garden statue made from fiberglass and resin. They’ve also got a life-sized Camarasaurus for sale at the same price.
We find it ironic that a drinking products website is selling these statues. But it does make some sense, because it would take us at least a few beers a piece before buying a life-sized dinosaur statue starts to sound like a good idea.
In any case, these Jurassic Park-like statues could make a funny addition to your crib, especially if your backyard resembles a jungle. Since each statue is made by hand, the wait time for delivery is three to four months, so you better think about ordering soon if you want your dinosaur statue to arrive in time for summer.
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Finally, we’ve found a bronze sculpture that we’d be proud to display in our driveway. Made by BigBronze, the 60-inch tall, 25-inch wide “Hot Rod Girl/ Hood Wench” statue sells for a reasonable $5,995 plus shipping. The downside: you’ll have to leave one of your whips out in the elements.
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