Architecture Has Long Been The Inspiration For Object Artists

Call them what you will -- souvenir buildings, miniature structures, metal models -- but they've been with us for decades.

Often banking institutions would create metal replica bans of their buildings to give to customers as premiums. Iconic architectural monuments from The Eiffel Tower to The Status of Liberty have been produced to appeal to the tourist trade.

Artists have even reproduced replicas of notorious structures -- from the Dallas Book Depository to the Alma Tunnel in which Princess Diana of Wales met her death -- and often to the outrage of the general public. Curious Town takes the dreams, doodles and fantastical thoughts of designer Bob Staake and brings the fiction into reality. These are "buildings never built ... until now" -- and they only exist in the form of these collectible art objects.