Bent spoke design wheels — feasible? The restaurant I ate at had these wheels with decorative bent spokes. 



Understanding that this wheel is decorative and wouldn’t work, could any wheel with bent spokes work? 

For this question, I’d like to exclude spokes that are twisted or intertwined to each other - the bend has to be unsupported as the spokes of the wheel in the photo.
Spokes bent like that can't take any load (tension), so it would not work. However, bending multiple spokes around each other can produce a feasible wheel with non-straight spokes, like the last photo here. Note that in this particular wheel a single broken spoke will cause multiple others to lose tension, most probably rendering the wheel unrideable.