Interior Design
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- Internet Sites
- Professional Associations & Career Links
- Articles: Indexes and Full Text
- Selected Ebooks
- Print Sources
- Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America
- Color Matters
- Founders of the Arts & Crafts Movement 1870 - 1900
- Michigan Design Center
Professional Associations & Career Links
- American Society of Interior Designers
- International Interior Design Association
- InteriorDesignJobs.com
- National Kitchen and Bath Association
- National Register of Historic Places
- National Trust for Historic Preservation
- Organization Black Designers
- US Green Business Council/LEED
Articles: Indexes and Full Text
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- Home Improvement Collection (Infotrac) Nearly 100 home improvement focused titles. Coverage includes such topics as architectural techniques, tool and material selection, zoning requirements, and many more.
- ARTstorA repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images from the arts, humanities, and architecture, along with descriptive information.
- General Reference Center Gold (InfoTrac) 1980 - present. Contains either full-text or citations/abstracts of articles. Key business, news, and general interest periodicals.
Selected Ebooks
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- Doyle, Michael E. Color Drawing: Design Drawing Skills and Techniques for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers. New York : John Wiley, 1999.
- Gardner, Elizabeth B. Opportunities in Arts and Crafts Careers. Lincolnwood, Il. : VGM Career Horizons, 1999.
Print Sources
- To find print (and some non-print) materials in OCC Libraries, search the Library Catalog. Some sample Library of Congress Subject Headings searches are:
- buildings--environmental engineering
- color in interior decoration
- furniture
- interior decoration
- Selected Reference Books
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Encyclopedia of Interior Design.. Chicago, Ill.:
Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997.
AH, OR Reference NK 1165 .E48 1997 - Boger, Louis Ade.
Complete Guide to Furniture Styles. Prospect
Heights, ILL.: Waveland Press, 1997.
OR Reference NK 2270 .B63 1997 - Harwood, Buie.
Architecture and Interior Design Through the 18th Century.
Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, c2002.
OR Reference NK1710 .H73 2002 - Nutting, Wallace.
Furniture Treasury. New York: MacMillan, 1971.
AH, HL, OR, RO Reference NK 2407 .N73
- Browsing Call Numbers (in Library of Congress Classification)
- NK 1700 - 3505 Interior Decoration (Art)
- TX 311 - 317/a Interior Decoration (Home Economics)
See also: Art
This page is maintained by Grace Larson and was last updated on
9/22/2008.
