Due to circumstances beyond our control, the talk entitled "Living with Plastics: The Promise of Mid-20th Century Melamine Dinnerware" will not be given by Christopher Geoffrey McPherson. In its place, Margaret Carney, Director of the International Museum of Dinnerware Design, will give a talk entitled "Plastic Dishes on the Table: America’s Love Affair with Melamine in the Mid-20th Century." 

This event provides an overview of melamine dinnerware from 1939 through the 1960s. Margaret Carney will share some of Christopher McPherson’s research as well as her own into melamine dinnerware along with pieces of melamine dinnerware from the collection of the International Museum of Dinnerware Design.

This event is in partnership with the International Museum of Dinnerware Design.