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The Wright, a restaurant designed by New York-based design practice Andre Kikoski Architects, will be opened to public on December 11, 2009 at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.

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Located in an elegant and modern architectural space, the New York City’s newest restaurant is named in honor of the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright who designed the museum. British artist Liam Gillick-designed site-specific sculpture was commissioned for the intimate Upper East Side destination. Conceived as a sculpture that can be expanded or contracted to fit any designated space, this architectural piece comprises a sequence of horizontal planks of powder-coated aluminum mounted to the walls and ceiling. A similar transparent screen marks the entrance to site. The resulting room-size installation creates a modular skin on the interior’s surface, its parallel beams creating a sense of a series of horizons.

Andre Kikoski has created white contemporary interiors for the Wright, inspired by the original Wright museum design. The 1,600 square feet Wright blends an upscale atmosphere with a sleek and comfortable venue. It features 58 seats and a communal table. The retail space also contains a European-style bar.

Other architectural features of the restaurant are a curvilinear wall of walnut layered with illuminated fiber-optics, a bar clad in a shimmering skin of custom metalwork and topped in seamless white Corian, a banquette with vivid blue leather seating backed by illuminated planes of a woven gray texture, and a layered ceiling canopy of taut white membrane. Surfaces and textures are animated by movement, creating an ever-changing fluid aesthetic that is an essential part of the design.

Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, which is often called simply The Guggenheim, is the permanent home to a renowned collection of impressionist, post-impressionist, early modern, and contemporary art, and also features special exhibitions throughout the year.