POP is a New York–based design studio. The company is distinct among boutique firms for its family makeup as well as its multidisciplinary organization: Representing expertise in architecture, and construction, principals Okan Oncel and Jessica Pleasants practice a robust creative process in which innovation and comfort are informed equally by budget and project management. Our unique structure not only ensures the constructability and overall value of every design, but also supports a shared vision of design excellence. We believe that the most memorable spaces flow easily into one another, foster inspiring connections to landscape and history, and possess an intuitive functionality. These principles best come to life when specialists from related fields combine knowledge. POP launched in 2018 with a variety of apartment, loft, and freestanding home projects in New York and northwestern Connecticut. In addition to realizing residential commissions ranging from a personal garage to a farmhouse expansion, currently the studio is working on a rooftop lounge in Manhattan and a regional performing arts center in North Carolina.

POP’s multidisciplinary method is founded on a spirit of collaboration. Our principals and team members routinely reach across professional borders to propose ideas, challenge assumptions, and assure quality. We also pride ourselves on serving clients foremost, by treating every commission like an authentic extension of a home or business owner. Our culture of cooperation and dialogue fully embraces the client, in turn. We begin every project as a period of dynamic and playful interaction, in which needs and aspirations are transformed into a highly detail concept. Listening, exchange, and visualization continues as a design evolves and becomes reality, so that the client feels more like a co-creator than a consumer. We genuinely welcome this participation as a source of vital information and a measure of emotional investment.