Design gallery The Future Perfect is exhibiting weird and wonderful ceramic homeware and accessories across its locations in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.
The Future Perfect teamed up with London design editor Tom Morris to create the exhibit called Mess, which opened 7 November at the gallery's three locations in America.
Following on from Morris' publication New Wave Clay, which was dedicated to contemporary ceramic work, the showcase is intended to highlight the creativity of today's ceramicists.
Antwerp's Harvey Bouterse has created abstract metallic objects on four legs
"Mess refers to the frenzied pleasure that can be had experimenting with an unruly, elemental and alchemical material such as clay," said Morris.  "It refers to the radical, feckless approach many contemporary ceramicists are showing ? quite happy to blur boundaries and break the rules on what people expect of ceramics." "They make a mess with traditional techniques as well as formal style," he added. "These elements have all combined to create a really exciting time for the discipline, which we hope to study in this show.?"
Spikes, dripping paint and florals are combined in this piece by Virginia Leonard
Morris worked with The Future Perfect's gallery director Laura Young to select 32 international artists to create pieces for the three-part showcase. "We asked each artist to push the material and explore fresh ideas both physically and conceptu...