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Exhibition

Table Manners

September 14, 2024–May 2025
Floor 3
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Entry to this exhibition is included with general admission.

Imagine a dinner party with your six favorite artists.

Table Manners brings together tableware, flatware, and drinkware from the SFMOMA Architecture + Design collection spanning nearly 100 years. The exhibition celebrates the ways design has shaped our relationship to food, our bodies, and communities, and how dining can be a profound communal and cultural experience. From self-filling wine glasses and teapots made of tea, to crisp modernist spoons and flatware made from discarded CDs, Table Manners explores the performance of dining. The exhibition includes works by Virgil Abloh, Joe Colombo, Zaha Hadid, Roberto Lugo, and many more, accompanied by illustrations and textiles by Lucy Stark.

Exhibition Preview

Tobias Wong and Just Another Rich Kid, Coke Spoon 02, from the Indulgent series, 2005; collection SFMOMA, gift of CITIZEN:Citizen; © Estate of Tobias Wong and Ju$t Another Rich Kid: photo: Don Ross
Roberto Lugo, Lil Wayne and James Baldwin teapot, 2022; collection SFMOMA, purchase through a gift of the FOG Forum; © Roberto Lugo: photo: Don Ross
Isabel Rower, Intimate Spoon, 2020; collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee purchase, by exchange, through a gift of Michael D. Abrams; photo: Tenari Tuatagaloa
Jinhyun Jeon, Flow and Chop Chow Set [2], 2023; collection SFMOMA, Accessions Committee purchase, by exchange, through a gift of Michael D. Abrams; photo: Don Ross
Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello for Emerging Objects, Utah Tea Set, 2015; collection SFMOMA, purchase through a gift of Nancy J. Troy and Wim de Wit; photo: Tenari Tuatagaloa

Support for Table Manners is provided by Gretchen and James Sandler.

Header image: Table Manners (installation view, SFMOMA); photo: Don Ross