The present lot was designed for the Lever House Restaurant (now Casa Lever), which was designed by Newson in 2003. The legendary Lever House (built 1950-52 by Gordon Bunschaft and Natalie de Blois of Skimore, Owings and Merrill) had fallen into a state of disrepair and it was acquired by developers in 1998. Lever House was restored and the restaurant was added on the ground level; the interiors echoed the warm, modernist design of the original building. Newson's interior design recalled the Lever Houses' mid-century origins, with a honeycomb motif on the ceilings and carpet, Andy Warhol portraits, and space-age-like rounded forms, as found in the walls, entryways and chairs.

