Five Centuries of Swedish Silver On View at SFO New Exhibition Explores Trends, Influences in Silverwork

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Five Centuries of Swedish Silver On View at SFO
New Exhibition Explores Trends, Influences in Silverwork

SAN FRANCISCO -- Five Centuries of Swedish Silver, a new exhibition now on view at San Francisco International Airport, examines the influences and trends affecting the art of silver making in Sweden from the seventeenth century to the present.

The exhibition presents over a hundred objects from the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg, Sweden, a museum dedicated to design and applied art. Tankards, coffeepots, teapots, bowls, candlesticks, vases, cocktail shakers and place settings reveal the different trends and customs in Sweden spanning many centuries; as well as demonstrate how international exchange has created compelling interpretations of style, technique and design in the process of silver making. Among the works included in the exhibition are a teapot made in 1768 by Johan Christoffer Jungmarker; a cocktail shaker from 1937-38 by Swedish Prince Sigvard Bernadotte, designer for Georg Jensen in Copenhagen (1930-2002); and a contemporary teapot (2004) by Lars Håkansson.

Five Centuries of Swedish Silver is located pre-security on the Departures/Ticketing Level of the International Terminal in Galleries A2 and G2. The exhibition is open to the public, free of charge, twenty-four hours a day, through July 2006. The exhibition is sponsored by the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation.

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