Consume: Handcrafting L.a. Restaurant Design

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The exhibition will feature all forms of items associated with food consumption, including: serving boards, dishware, glasses, lighting, and furnishings. Various media will be represented ranging from ceramics to wood to metal and more. The intersection of design, art, and craft to enhance dining will be the crux of this show.

Food was a motivational font for craft from its earliest origins. Craft has facilitated and elevated the act of cooking and consumption throughout history, from woven baskets to clay storage jars. Well-executed serving pieces and kitchen tools transform the edible experience and encourage us to stop and think about what we eat and how things taste. As creators of American material culture, craft makers design and build the relics of our everyday, modern world, and food is focal. Craft today plays a part in how we interact with food and deepens the ideology of sustainability and terroir.

We will host artist lectures and panel discussions over the course of the show in which we invite leading chefs and/or restaurateurs to dialogue with craft artists about their collaborations and the role of design and visual art in their industry. The exhibition and progWe will host artist lectures and panel discussions over the course of the show in which we invite leading chefs and/or restaurateurs to dialogue with craft artists about their collaborations and the role of design and visual art in their industry. The exhibition and programs will explore the interdisciplinary nature of craft in restaurants today. The modern restaurant has become a landscape infused deeply with craft and setting for creative craft expression.rams will explore the interdisciplinary nature of craft in restaurants today. The modern dining room, food hall, restaurant, and coffee bar have become landscapes infused deeply with craft and setting for creative craft expression.

Support provided by Pasadena Art Alliance and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.