Andre Kikoski designed this restaurant, The Wright, for the Guggenheim Museum in New York that transforms Wright’s familiar geometries into a new dining experience. The 1600 sqf restaurant contains a playfulness of form as a curvilinear wall of walnut layered with illuminated fiber-optics accentuates the main wall and sculptural forms embellish a flared ceiling. While the style is refreshingly contemporary, the forms are rooted in Wright’s underlying geometries to create a relationship between the main museum and this new addition.
Essential to Wright’s architecture is the feeling of procession as one enters the main lobby of the Guggenheim which Kikoski carries through the restaurant design by engaging the heightened sense of procession using surfaces and textures animated by movement to create a fluid aesthetic.