How Luxe Light & Home Conquered the Affordable Luxury Lighting Market






Sally Thomas Cooper and Jason Kai Cooper are the founders of Luxe Light & Home.



Founded in 2015 in Los Angeles, Luxe Light & Home has become one of America’s most creative and popular designer lighting brands with timeless, classic, and elegant collections. Incollect spoke to the duo behind the brand, Sally Thomas Cooper and Jason Kai Cooper about their lighting obsession and inspirations, which range from Venetian glass to vintage jewelry, to Diego Giacometti sculptures. 





by Benjamin Genocchio  

All photos courtesy Luxe Light & Home/Thomas Cooper Studio 




How would you characterize your brand? 

Luxe Light & Home handcrafts high-end residential lighting fixtures and accessories with modern and classically beautiful designs. We conceive of our designs as a celebration of materials and artistic processes: the Luxe Light & Home collections always focus on employing handmade glass and all-natural materials combined to create what we like to call ‘affordable luxury.’


Early in the creation of our Luxe collections, we were fortunate to have a conversation with the Kravet design and ownership team, ultimately leading to an exclusive to-the-trade distribution throughout their North American showrooms. Their valuable insights helped us to refine the collections’ aesthetic and position them as both accessible and sophisticated.



The LUCIA chandelier is one of the company’s most admired designs and can be configured to suit many different installations. This model is perfect above a dining or conference table.



What is your most popular light? 

Our LUCIA collection continues to be popular — the combination of the branch-like frames and locally blown Los Angeles glass ‘blossoms’ plus our custom capabilities have resulted in a popular silhouette reimagined for clients now in many sizes and finishes.




In the studio, inspecting and testing an extraordinary 25-foot custom vertical version of the Lucia Chandelier for the grand entry area of a Hollywood Hills residence.



Who makes the designs? 

Each piece is designed and crafted with the finest materials here in Los Angeles by our family of artisans, builders, and designers.



Le Marais French plaster pendant in a custom bronze finish.



What are some of the design projects you have worked on recently?

We have been fortunate to work on many inspiring projects and have over the years developed a strong roster of celebrity clients. We just installed lighting for a stunning home in the Hollywood Hills where we included a 25-foot-high custom LUCIA light in the grand entry area, custom LE MARAIS pendants and sconces in a lush bronze hand finish throughout the dining and lounge areas, and PORTIA pendant lights made in rich custom aubergine glass in the master bedroom.



Where do the ideas come from for the shapes and forms?

Travel, life, experiences, art, so many sources. Each design however reflects a specific inspiration but aesthetically pieces reflect our love of mid-century modern silhouettes and materials. The GIO collections for example, with their decorative ‘cuffs’ like crowns of hand-made leaves and hand-cast rostrato spikes, are inspired by our collection of vintage jewelry cuffs and bracelets. LE MARAIS — which is named after one of our favorite Paris neighborhoods — was inspired specifically by the lines and plaster finish of the Giacometti fixtures in the Musée Picasso in Paris. For SORBONNE we collected delightful glass vessels from Paris flea markets that served as the inspiration for the overscale ‘water glass’ shades of these pieces.




Left: Hand-crafted with a rainbow of petals in Brazilian agate, a custom-commissioned Camille Chandelier sets a romantic, dramatic mood. Right: The elegant Escalade Dining Chandelier combines scalloped hand-blown glass shades stacked on an architectural frame.



What's the best part about being a designer? 

We love working with materials and at one time or another, we have worked with most materials for Luxe or for Thomas Cooper Studio. Hand-blown or cast glass from Italy and California are our favorite materials as well as quartz ‘rock crystal’ and alabaster. We love the warmth of these materials and working with the skilled artisans and the processes they employ. Sally’s textile obsession is leading us to some new ideas and Jason is always researching materials we haven’t developed collections with yet. 



Sally Thomas Cooper in her Los Angeles studio with a Thomas Cooper Projects sculpture in progress (foreground).



Everything you make is hand-crafted. Why is that important?

We feel that our clients — the interior designers and their clients, the buyers — recognize and even yearn for creativity and authenticity in design. There are plenty of mass-produced options available these days but we and our clients respond better to the real thing.


Each piece looks like a sculpture. Is that intentional?

That’s very true! And yes, we are obsessed with form and silhouette — especially the challenge to create a light that can be viewed and appreciated from every side or angle.



The Gio Ciolo Chandelier’s “cuffs” of hand-cast “Rostrato” spikes encircle hand-blown cylinders of frosted or seeded glass cylinders, inspired by Sally and Jason’s collection of vintage cuff bracelets.



You work as a team and collaborate on your designs. What do each of you bring to the design process? 

Sally is the ‘lighting muse’ so to speak, passionate about the form, the materials, and the history of the places and people that inspire our designs. Jason is really the design and engineering brains behind the whole operation. His experience in design and understanding of the engineered details are crucial to creating a working finished product.



How does a design come to life? Do you make models?

Jason sketches the old-school way — by hand and on paper. Then he will develop a digital design with our in-house design team drafting 2D and 3D models on a computer and then we create prototypes in our factory to perfect the scale, angles and details.



Jason Kai Cooper sketches lighting concepts at the Multiforme factory just outside Venice, Italy.





Hand-cast pink scallop mirror, releasing in 2025. The collection will be available in custom colors, patterns, and sizes.

Do issues of sustainability factor into product designs?

Certainly, sustainability is a core element in our design process that is naturally embedded in our materials and techniques. Offering supply chain control and largely US-based production, we own our MindClick-registered 85,000-square foot East Los Angeles manufacturing facility where each piece is crafted with care using environmentally conscious methods. Special care is applied in the design to ensure the components are recyclable and easy to disassemble. To us, the purest form of carbon capture is creating a legacy product that will be passed down to future generations, and to that end, we focus on using the highest quality materials, fabrication techniques and timeless design with the goal to make every piece last for 50–100 years or more.



What is next for you?

We are excited to be creating a gorgeous mirror collection for 2025 with one of our Murano glass partners. 



How did that come about?

On a recent trip to visit our Venetian glass makers, we spied some fascinating glass molds that looked like old Art Deco picture frames. So we sat with our artisans and we contemplated how to use these beautiful designs in a collection of accent mirrors while drawing on the inspiring colors and textures of hand-cast glass. Using vintage steel molds to hand cast shapes and textures for the mirrors in glass, the collection slowly took shape! The emphasis is on classic and mid-century patterns using soft jewel-box colors — we are very excited to release them in American and international markets in 2025! Custom patterns, colors, and sizes will also be available for clients.




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