Product/Collection Name: Prima

About This Product: Melding geometric silhouettes of intersecting planes, ellipses, and cubes with the natural elements of alabaster to create architecturally inspired organic designs, the Prima sconce’s half moon hand-carved marbled alabaster reclines in a ribbon of solid oil rubbed bronze. It measures 20” H X 12” L X 4” D.

Creative partners Sally Thomas Cooper and Jason Kai Cooper, known for fresh, modern lighting for hospitality and home through their ventures, founded Thomas Cooper Studio to explore the material and sculptural essence of lighting. After years of working with Tuscan quarries to source alabaster for their other lighting brands, the design duo has developed a deep appreciation for the material's ability to provide a soft diffusion of light and the heritage techniques practiced by the quarries to ensure premium quality. Dating back to early civilizations, alabaster has long been preferred for its semi-opaque quality that gives sculptures and decorative pieces carved from the material a unique warmth and delicateness.

Their studio represents a multilayered, multifaceted collaboration between Jason and Sally. Materials and techniques join forces in a search for the inner poetry of each piece: heat-formed, mouth-blown, flash-cracked glass; carved marble, alabaster, and natural stone; cast and hand-patinaed bronze; hand-polished, leaded crystal. A study of sculptural expression creates a balance between shine and shade, density and delicacy, form and function.