The Writer’s Studio in upstate NY is a sublime piece of functional sculpture
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Prior to setting up in New York in 2008, Chris Cooper was at SOM, while Wendy Evans Joseph was with Pei Cobb Freed. Many of the firm's projects exist at the intersection of architecture and art, such as Starlight, an installation of floating LED chips. The Writer's Studio in upstate NY is a sublime piece of functional sculpture, while the Webb Chapel Park Pavilion in Texas resonates with a rich yellow interior.
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Cooper Joseph studio

(Image credit: Elliot Kauffman)

Cooper Joseph Studio

(Image credit: Elliot Kauffman)

Cooper Joseph studio

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Cooper Joseph studio

(Image credit: Arch Photo / Eduard Hueber)

Cooper Joseph chandelier

(Image credit: Arch Photo / Eduard Hueber)

chandelier of Cooper Joseph

(Image credit: Arch Photo / Eduard Hueber)

Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).