Previously juggling balls were made from balls of twine, stuffed leather bags, wooden spheres or various metals.

On both pieces, the architect strengthened the joints by adding another highly decorative but functional device - wooden spheres the size of golf balls.

When pipes get blocked, cleaning "balls" - wooden or metal spheres 3, 5 and 10 feet in diameter - are released to open up a way.

Her "D.U.M.B." is a similar interior, except that it is painted on a wooden sphere 10 inches in diameter.

He left determined to produce his own and produced a heavy wooden sphere covered with ink drawings on paper.

An iron fence with brick posts topped by wooden spheres sets it off from the streets on the south and east.

This work involves the journey of a large wooden sphere from a Welsh mountainside to the Atlantic Ocean.

Wooden Boulder is a large wooden sphere carved by Nash in the North Wales landscape and left there to weather.

In Neuchâtel, a 90-foot wooden sphere called the Palais de l'Équilibre, by Groupe H architects, contains an exhibition on climate change.

Made of joined plywood panels, these pieces have shallow oval depressions cut smoothly into their surfaces, and wooden spheres and gems protrude in high relief.