John Paul Cooper

John Paul Cooper (3 October 1869[1] – 3 May 1933[2]) was a British architect and a leading craftsman in the Arts and Crafts Movement, specialising in metalwork and jewellery.

[3] Cooper studied architectural drawing for three years from 1888 as an apprentice to John Sedding in London[4] and travelled in Europe in the 1890s with the architects Alfred Hoare Powell and Henry Wilson.

Cooper set up a workshop in Kensington, sending four pieces to the Arts and Crafts Exhibition in 1899 but did not produce his first jewellery until 1900.

[5][7] He lived there until his death in 1933. Cooper was influenced by the work of William Morris[10] and collaborated with Ernest Gimson from 1902 to 1906, making handles for his furniture.

Their daughter Katherine ("Kanty") was a sculptor (a student of Henry Moore) and a humanitarian aid worker during the Spanish Civil War.