TEXT BY Shonquis Moreno
PHOTOS BY Elizabeth Weinberg
Designers Khodi Feiz and Reza Feiz live and work in two far-flung cities—a great distance from their birthplace in Tehran. Khodi’s Feiz Design Studio in Amsterdam and Reza’s studio, Phase Design in Los Angeles, make different brands of graphical, minimalist furniture, lighting, and objects. What the designers have in common are simplicity and clarity—two difficult qualities to achieve.
First consider the brothers’ fraught early history: In December 1978, on the eve of the Iranian Revolution, Khodi, 14, and Reza, 9, fled their home country to Bethesda, Maryland, along with their sister. The three joined their mother, a former director of international relations at Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency, and she filed for political asylum. Reza has not returned to Iran since, and it…