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I have no idea why you'd want a curved door, but I suppose there's always clients who'll want different for the sake of different. If that's an itch they need scratched, an Italian manufacturer called Linvisibile manufacturers curved, hinged doors with a ten-year warranty. These are "distinguished by the use of adjustable concealed hinges," they write, "and the absence of door frames or jambs to achieve seamless continuity between wall and door."
There are of course frames--just invisible ones (i.e. concealed within the surrounding walls) made from extruded aluminum. The doors themselves are hollow-core, hardwood-framed and MDF-skinned, with a honeycomb layer between. And they can be ordered in any permutation of concave/convex, left-hand/right-hand, swing-in or swing-out.
One of the use cases they cite is a London home owned by "a family of sailors" who wanted a nautical, boat-like feel to the interior.
I suppose the aluminum frame goes a long way towards making the installation easier, assuming the walls are plumb, but man I wouldn't want to hang one of these.
I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.
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This Company Makes Curved Doors
the doors are nice enough, but it drives me nuts that in every photo above, the surrounding plaster / wall board surfaces don't look particularly well done. the wall surface curvatures are a series of vertical flat planes to make the curve happen, but there are clearly visible "flat" sections that disrupt the curve visually. they didn't slit or break the wall panels closely enough to follow the curve more gracefully, or the framing lacked proper attention to detail.