David
Khouri came to furniture design through architecture. He began the firm Comma
in 1997, and has enjoyed a very favorable response, having been featured in
the New York Times. Comma hopes to address a few issues in its work, though
they firmly believe that objects speak for themselves. Being seduced by a simple
idea is to discover that reducing anything to its most archetypal form is by
far the most challenging problem any designer faces. Manupulating familiar
materials in unfamiliar ways is a means of investigating this idea--for example
walnut skin veneered onto a brakeformed aluminum or console cast entirely of
one piece.