This Expansive Restaurant Is Surrounded By Stunning Horticulture
Best of Year Winner for Fine Dining
1906 at Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
The 250-seat, 6,100-square-foot restaurant—named for the year Pierre S. du Pont bought the property that would become the fabled horticultural campus in which it sits—was created as part of weiss/manfredi architecture/landscape/urbanism’s expansion of Longwood’s public spaces. Tucked behind a retaining wall and beneath the main conservatory terrace, the venue is “hidden in plain sight”: an airy, vaulted space overlooking the fountain garden through floor-to-ceiling arched windows. Antique-bronze mirrors on the opposite side of the room reflect the view, while the ceiling’s basketweave pattern echoes the arcing water jets outside. Other garden nods include sage-green banquettes, custom rugs evoking the tree canopy, and a site-specific mural depicting morning light on nearby meadows.
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