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Two amazing nights of elegance and epicuria return in support of PHP DIFFA'S DINING BY DESIGN 2009!

Dates for this year's DINING BY DESIGN San Francisco are November 18-19 at the Galleria San Francisco Design Center, 101 Henry Adams Street.

DIFFA's DINING BY DESIGN San Francisco, now in its ninth year here, brings together generous table hosts and top designers from all disciplines to showcase incredibly creative, awe-inspiring dining installations plus gourmet dining, wine, cocktails and two full nights of non-stop fun! We invite you to be a part of this year's celebration by creating and/or hosting one of the spectacular tables. Both evenings feature designs by historic and nascent talents who create and install 3D dining environments for a gamut of sponsors that ranges from national print sponsor Architectural Digest, to SF architectural firms HOK and Gensler, to McCrae & Co. Inc. and other showrooms at the SF Design Center. The collective of the designs inevitably infuses the entire Galleria space with overwhelming work that reflects the best of San Francisco professional work in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, graphics, florals, and more.

Part of a seven-city national tour that includes New York, Chicago and Atlanta, DINING BY DESIGN San Francisco gives local designers and table hosts an unmatched public relations and marketing platform and the opportunity to lend essential support to DIFFA (Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS; www.diffa.org), the AIDS Research Institute at UCSF (www.ari.ucsf.edu) and the Positive Health Program at SF General Hospital (www.php.ucsf.edu), the city's single largest and the worldâ€™s fist HIV/AIDS care clinic, ranked this year for the sixth time as #1 in the US for HIV/AIDS clinical care and where 95% of patients have no private health insurance.

This year's event includes two nights:

TABLE HOP & TASTE, Wednesday, Nov. 18
A dazzling preview party where guests stroll through the Galleria to view the creative table environments, sip cocktails from Stolichnaya ELIT and Castello di Gabbiano wines paired with tastes from San Francisco's top restaurants and gourmet food purveyors, and meet our talented designers. Tickets: $100.

GALA DINNER, Thursday, Nov. 19
A spectacular preview cocktail and wine reception, and sumptuous 3-course seated dinner at a designed table, plus a tantalizing silent auction. Hosted Table seating only.

DINING BY DESIGN is brought to you by Catello di Gabbiano wine and Stolichnaya ELIT vodka. National Media sponsorship is provided by The New York Times and Architectural Digest.

This year's San Francisco event Co-Chairs are Anthony Garrett, Vice President of Interior Design at HOK, Ronette King, Principal of Interiors at Gensler Architecture, Susie McRae, Owner of McRae & Company, fine furniture and interiors showroom at the SFDC.

We warmly invite your participation as an event sponsor, as a table host or designer, as a donator to our silent auction or raffle, or as a volunteer. Contact Marc Vincent at (415) 476-4082 ext. 126 or mvincent@ucsf.edu.