A crystal chandelier tangled with 100 colourful stuffed birds and an unfurling wooden cabinet are among a series of new works that artist and designer Sebastian Errazuriz is showing in New York.

New York-based, Chilean-born Errazuriz is debuting the new Bird, Mechanical Cabinet and Metamorphosis series in the Breaking the Box exhibit at the R & Company gallery, located in Manhattan's Tribeca neighbourhood.

Comprising "vibrant taxidermy", moving cabinetry and organic furniture, the works are intended to "reconsider conventions", following the designer's past experimental projects that include penis paperweights and statues that double as seats.

Photograph by Joe Kramm
"We tend to understand reality by constraining meaning into closed and simplified boxes defined by previous cultural conventions," said Errazuriz in a statement. "We live within these pre-established cognitive borders where we only tend to see, recognise and accept as true that which has been previously ordered and defined."
Photograph by Joe Kramm
A highlight of the showcase is the Bird Chandelier, which Errazuriz designed to hang down a 40-foot-high (12.1-metre) atrium at R & Company, providing a centrepiece for the exhibition.

It is among his Bird set, which also includes a hanging lamp that acts as a perch for colourful small creatures in different poses ? some with their wings raised. There is also a mirror that has a stuffed bird on a twig, as if l...