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Decorative Exhibition

Table Manners

September 14 at 10am - November 30

At San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Transbay, San Francisco

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Find the exhibition on floor 3

Table Manners explores the performance of dining through nearly 100 years of tableware, flatware, and drinkware. The exhibition examines how design shapes our relationship to food, our bodies, and our communities.

What are you into?

  • Design exhibition
  • Modern art collection
  • Interactive installations
  • Architecture and design
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  • Transbay
  • San Francisco

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