Dan Cooper, President of Cooper's Cottage Lace, LLC, has worked with historic lace curtains for 19 years, providing them to private homes, house museums and film sets. He realized that there was a great demand for what he terms Artful Lace: a unique form of 100% cotton Madras lace curtain panels that are designed by the leading artisans of today and who still work in the historic manner. He began with Colonial Revival and Arts and Crafts lace curtain designs, and has recently expanded this line to include the entire 19th and early 20th centuries, with the debut of
The Bradbury Collection; a collaboration between his firm and
Bradbury & Bradbury Wallpapers.

Dan has published hundreds of articles on the subjects of antiques, architecture, preservation and historic interior design in such magazines as
Old House Interiors,
Arts & Crafts Homes,
Old House Journal,
Period Homes,
Cottages & Bungalows,
Victorian Homes,
Style 1900,
Early Homes,
Antique Homes and is the author of
The Butchy Chronicles, a darkly humorous series of essays about the traumas of house restoration that is currently serialized in
Old House Interiors. These are being compiled into Dan's second book, along with selected essays.
Dan's first book,
New Classic American Houses, was published by The Vendome Press last fall and is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Borders Books, amongst other retailers. Dan also blogs for
Period Homes and on this site, with his
Lace Blog.

Dan is also recognized as a leading authority on the subject of historic carpeting. He has traveled throughout North America consulting on and purveying historic Wilton, Brussels, Axminster, Ingrain and Venetian carpets, and has worked in hundreds of state capitols, governor's mansions, decorative arts museums and house museums, including a very notable residence in the District of Columbia. His specialty is assisting clients find the most historically accurate and authentic carpet for their needs, and facilitating its proper installation in the most affordable manner possible. Dan's reputation is widely known throughout the design and museum fields for offering the finest customer service, no matter how remote the location, and never missing a deadline.
Please visit
www.historic-carpet.com for more information.
Contact/Follow Dan at:
413-549-1063
dan@cottagelace.com
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