install1.tif.zip (13.7 mb) Installation view of introductory gallery, with cases describing the "Biographies" or the development of knife, fork, and spoon forms at the table from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries.
Photo: Andrew Garn

install2.tif.zip (13.7 mb) Installation view of a lavish Gilded Age dining room table set with Tiffany & Co. flatware and tableware, including the custom-designed salt and pepper shaker set made for John W. and Marie Louise Mackay, in the foreground, and the stylistic timeline of knife, fork, and spoon "biographies" in the background.
Photo: Andrew Garn

install3.tif.zip (13.9 mb) Installation view of gallery addressing dining away from home, from seventeenth-century traveling sets made of ivory and enamel to colorful twentieth-century picnic flatware and airline dining trays.
Photo: Andrew Garn

install4.tif.zip (13 mb) Installation view of gallery discussing various topics within the history of flatware and dining, including a wall of objects arranged by material (in background at right); specialized utensils for foods such as ice cream and pasta (in background at left); early-twentieth century flatware design; ergonomically-designed flatware; color at the table; naturalism as a design motif; and images of celebratory dining and place settings through several centuries.
Photo: Andrew Garn

install5.tif.zip (12.2 mb) Installation view of section discussing flatware production processes, from hand-hammered silver to tool dies or stamps and molds to modern-day injection-molded plastic.
Photo: Andrew Garn

install6.tif.zip (8.8 mb) Installation view of cases displaying various specialized utensils for foods such as sweetmeats or candied fruits, pickles, scallops, sardines, marrow, asparagus, fish, soup, gravy, pasta, ice cream, and many others.
Photo: Andrew Garn

install7.tif.zip (13.4 mb) Installation view of flatware designed for children or commemorating birth and presentation and souvenir flatware, such as a seventeenth-century English Apostle spoon and a "Brooklyn Bridge" commemorative spoon.
Photo: Andrew Garn

install8.tif.zip (13.7 mb) Installation view of artist Maureen Connor’s Taste video installation.
Photo: Andrew Garn

install9.tif.zip (10.3 mb) Installation view of Pasanella "Etiquette" napkin and placemat, a roll of "Slow/Fast" placemats, Gio Ponti flatware from the 1950s, examples of twenty-first-century flatware and tableware designs by Sandra Bautista Martin, Sam Baron, and Maarten Baptist, and a specially-conceived table environment designed by Ted Muehling.
Photo: Andrew Garn

install10.tif.zip (12.4 mb) Installation view of exhibition finale with a selection of flatware made by students and designers who were asked by Galerie Ra (Amsterdam) in 2002 to "rethink" the spoon for the twenty-first century.
Photo: Andrew Garn