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The Wright Wins Design Award and Nomination

NEW YORK, NY.- The Guggenheim’s fine-dining restaurant the Wright has won a 2010 James Beard Foundation Award for outstanding restaurant design. The James Beard Foundation Awards are among the highest honors for food and beverage professionals working in America, and recognize superior achievement in categories ranging from Best Chef and Outstanding Restaurateur to Cookbook of the Year and Multimedia Food Feature. The awards were announced on May 3 during a ceremony at Lincoln Center in New York. Along with this prestigious award, the Wright has been nominated as part of Condé Nast Traveller’s fourth Innovation and Design Awards (I&DA) in the Gourmet category. The I&DA celebrates excellence across ten categories ranging from sustainability to communications technology, as researched by the Condé Nast Traveller team. A panel of judges, including Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate; acclaimed chef Heston Blumenthal;