British avant-garde design house Fredrikson Stallard is set to inaugurate its latest display Gasoline Gardens at London’s David Gill Galleries.

The exhibit features fifteen porcelain vases created in collaboration with traditional Chinese porcelain makers and a UK airbrushing artist, effortlessly fusing two contrasting cultures to create astonishing contemporary design.

According to the designers, “We are creating a cultural collision. But in both cases the work is about status. In China, the vase was a symbol of power and wealth and in 20th century America, the car fulfilled the same role. But while the Chinese decorated their vases with dragons and flames, the American hot rod painters went for sexy girls and smoke.”

Each unique vase is layered with differing imagery as sinuous girls emerge from flames, smoke, and streaks of silver.

Gasoline Gardens, 20 November-22 December 2009. David Gill Galleries, 3 Loughborough Street, London SE11 5RB. T: (+44) 0207 793 1100.