The Cooper Group. (design firm)

Interior Design, September, 1993

Taking their stylistic cues from the French modernist movement, designers Celeste Cooper and Donald Schermerhorn created an extremely appealing library heavy on refinement and sophistication. The delicate balance of discipline and lyricism that characterizes the best of high French modernism, says Cooper, makes the style a singularly potent and appropriate antidote to both the excesses of postmodernism and the sterility of the Bauhaus.

Because this year's Kips Bay house didn't hold forth the same fantasy level as previous houses (grand salons and attractive architectural details were in short supply), Cooper felt that an eclectic brew of classic modern and contemporary furnishings would make more sense than bedizening the modest space with gilt and elaborate...

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