The sonic booms created by the jumbo jets, man landing on the moon, color TV and childhood homes done up in Danish modern all figure in the colorful language of upstart design team Comma. David Khouri and Roberto Guzman are seduced by simple ideas. "Reducing anything to its most archetypal form is by far the biggest challenge looming in front of any designer." Accessible and multi-functional, Comma revels in subtle evolutions of existing forms.

"It's not about 'zaniness,' or ridiculous forms or material. It's about stealth change - to me that's sublime," Khouri says.Maintaining a belief that furniture and interiors "should speak for themselves," Comma is steadfastly "dedicated to manipulating familiar materials in unfamiliar ways." Khouri and Guzman, who both hold Masters degrees in Architecture from Columbia University, are equally committed to a whimsical view of Americana and pop culture: take monikers like the Valet of the Dolls table or the LuLu wall lights, which hang seductively like an electrified Paco Rabanne gown.
text by *surface magazine