Around the room are models and drawings of many of the some 60 civic sculptures Mr. Garten has made and is working on, each of which take between three and six years to complete and include a 40-foot stainless-steel sculpture tower in Dallas and a 16-foot-tall curvy stainless-steel sculpture in Long Beach.

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Umasi, a collection of work by artist Wells Mason, blurs the line between sculpture and furniture, with man-made materials such as stainless steel and tempered glass colliding with organic (exquisitely finished woods) and even obviously salvaged materials (a telephone pole, recycled rubber, bicycle parts).

FORBES: Above photo courtesy of John Langford

In the museum's sculpture garden is another gift from the Broads: the treelike, stainless-steel "Containment 1" by Roxy Paine.

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