Looking to join such acclaimed museum dining rooms as The Modern at The Museum of Modern Art, and Terzo Piano, atop the Modern Wing of The Art Institute of Chicago, The Wright is the latest destination restaurant with a legacy of art and architecture. Adjacent to the soaring rotunda of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum in New York City, The Wright opened this month as part of the iconic building’s 50th anniversary celebration.

Designed with an intelligent sleight of hand by the New York-based Andre Kikoski Architect, the 1,600-sqaure-foot eatery is evocative of its architectural pedigree, yet not overwhelmed by it. According to the firm’s eponymous principal, he and his design team took their cues from Wright’s geometry and materiality, carefully calculating the room’s shapes and proportions based on the motifs and dynamic forms the architect used throughout the structure. Ergo, a crisply stretched ceiling echoes its ribbon-like spirals, as does the softly up-lit tiered wall covered in a sound-absorbing mesh-like textile above the banquette. Sleek Corian horizontal surfaces reference the dynamic planes of its interior.