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perspectives By Jane Levere trends artful dining When grabbing a bite in today’s New York museums, it’s hard to say where the exhibits end and the restaurants begin. Take Ark Restaurants’ new Robert—named after the late party designer, Robert Isabell, a longtime friend of the owner’s—which occupies the top floor of the Museum of Arts and Design in Columbus Circle. Taking cues from its home, the restaurant’s modern design is a unique collaboration of artists and designers. “Our challenge was to create a modern, yet comfortable environment that would take maximum advantage of the spectacular view north over Central Park. We wanted to create a unique but harmonious setting for a ‘curated’ selection of furnishings, sitespecific art installations, and decorative objects, that the restaurant operator selected to complement the museum’s collection,” says David Schefer, of New York-based Schefer Design, the restaurant’s project architect. He adds that they used a variety of industrial-type materials such as metallic porcelain tiles, expanded metal ceiling panels, stainless steel trim, tightly upholstered fabric panels, plaster, and strategically placed mirrored panels to create a backdrop that Vladimir Kagan, a video art piece by Jennifer Steinkamp displayed on a 103-inch plasma screen, and the Johanna Grawunder-designed mobile-like, LED-lit, Lucite panels that seem to zigzag across the ceiling. She also designed the suspended orange Lucite boxes that run along the perimeter of the restaurant. Similarly, for Restaurant Associates’ new eatery the Wright at the Guggenheim Museum, local architect Andre Kikoski “wanted to achieve something complementary to the museum and the building that at the same time is very much contemporary; a work in the spirit of [the museum’s architect and restaurant’s namesake Frank Lloyd] Wright, and as a response to Wright,” he says. Throughout the 1,600-square-foot space, Kikoski created sculptural forms all based on the Guggenheim’s iconic, underlying geometries. There’s a curvilinear walnut wall interspersed with illuminated fiber optics; a bar outfitted in custom metalwork and topped with white Corian; and a layered ceiling canopy of taut, white membrane. Color comes in the form of a curved bright blue leather banquette Photo by Peter Aaron/ESTO Photo by Andrea Malizia From left: Two museum restaurants named after two inspirational men: the sculptural Wright eatery at the Guggenheim Museum and Robert, a modern restaurant at the Museum of Arts and Design. not only reflects the architecture of the building, but also provides a sophisticated setting for the art installations and furnishings. In terms of “art” pieces, custom-designed, dynamic, sculptural furniture by London-based Philip Michael Wolfson, a former colleague of Zaha Hadid, includes a 15-foot-long steel communal table made of powder-coated aluminum that’s cut in half by a six-foot-tall “sound wave”; cocktail tables done in mirror-polished aluminum and glass; and matching barstools. “I was trying to emphasize the sparkle, glitter, Mondrian grid of lights at night,” he says. “The mirrored tables reflect the activity; what’s going on inside the restaurant and what’s going on outside the window.” Other highlights include upholstered, modernist furniture by that wraps the space and an installation by artist Liam Gillick made up of a sequence of multi-colored, horizontal planks of powder-coated aluminum that are mounted on the Wright’s walls and curve up onto the ceiling. “We embraced this opportunity to animate the sculptural quality of the building by transforming Wright’s underlying architectural geometries into nuanced, playful forms,” Kikoski says. And Union Square Hospitality Group, which brought Bentel & Bentel’s clean design for the Modern to the Museum of Modern Art in 2004, will expand its museum presence this fall, when it opens a new, yet-to-be-named café at the Whitney Museum of American Art. hospitalitydesign www.hospitalitydesign.com
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