Karim Rashid Throws New York a Kurve

Friend of UnBeige Karim Rashid (in whose plastic-shod footsteps Zaha Hadid is following by creating shoes for Melissa) has designed a new restaurant, and there’s not a right angle in sight. Kurve, the third New York restaurant to get the Rashid treatment, is an East Village pan-Asian bistro with a pod-enclosed central bar, a communal table, and walls that Rashid described in an e-mail as “organically undulating.” The place is wrapped in custom-printed pink, lime, and aqua wallpaper, “making the walls a large mural, blurring borderlines of graphic design, art, and architecture.”