Decorative Arts and Design Research Guide
- Antiques and Furniture
- Auction Resources
- Costume/Fashion
- Crafts
- E-Journals
- General Decorative Arts
- General Information
- Glass, Ceramics, Jewelry, and Metalwork
- Graphic Design and Print Resources
- Industrial Design
- Interior Design
- Libraries
- Pop-Up and Moveable Books
- Smithsonian Institution Resources
- Special Interests
- Textiles
- Wallcoverings
- World's Fairs
The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives' Decorative Arts and Design Research Guide is a select list of resources for students, teachers, and researchers to learn about Decorative Arts and Design.
Antiques and Furniture
- American Decorative Arts Timeline
- Antiques and the Arts Online
- Antiques Roadshow (PBS)
- Furniture Society
- Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities (SPNEA)
- Strong Museum
Auction Resources
Costume/Fashion
- Fashion Institute of Technology
- Fashion, Jewellery and Accessories (Victoria and Albert Museum)
- Fashion Museum Bath
- The Costumer's Manifesto
Crafts
- American Craft Council
- Society of Arts and Crafts
- Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.
- Smithsonian Crafts Show
- Society of American Silversmiths
E-Journals
General Decorative Arts
General Information
- American Decorative Arts
- American Folk Art Museum
- Appraisers Association of America, Inc.
- Peabody Essex Museum
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Vitra Design Museum
- Wallace Collection
- Winterthur
Glass, Ceramics, Jewelry, and Metalwork
- Corning Museum of Glass
- Scholes Library (New York State College of Ceramics of Alfred University)
- Society of American Silversmiths
- Wedgwood Society of New York
Graphic Design and Print Resources
- American Historical Print Collectors Society
- American Institute of Graphic Arts
- American Print Alliance
- Duke University Ad*Access Project
- Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850-1920 (Duke University)
- International Print Center, New York
- Society of Illustrators
Industrial Design
- DMI Design Management Institute
- Hagley Museum and Library
- Harrye B. Lyons Design Library (NCSU Library)
- Henry Ford Museum and Greenfield Village
- IDSA Industrial Designers Society of America
- Industrial Designers Finding Aid (Syracuse University Archives)
- Material Connexion
- Organization of Black Designers
Interior Design
Libraries
- Bard Graduate Center Library
- Columbia University Library
- Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture
- Fashion Institute of Technology Library
- Getty Research Institute Library
- Library of Congress American Memory
- Library of Congress Exhibitions
- New York Public Library
- NYU/Parsons School of Design/New York School of Interior Design Library
- The European Library
Pop-Up and Moveable Books
- Bowdoin, Library, Harold M. Goralnick Pop-up Book Collection
- Chuck Fischer Studio
- Goralnick Collection - Bowdoin College, ME
- Mark Hiner- Paper Engineering and Pop-Ups
- The Moveable Book Society
- Pop-up Books from the Nathaniel H. Puffer Collection
Smithsonian Institution Resources
- Archives of American Art
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Science and the Artist's Book (Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition)
- Smithsonian Craft Show
Special Interests
- Antique Fan Collectors Association
- British Button Society
- Museum of the City of New York
- The Art Deco Society
- The Ephemera Society of America
- The Victorian Web
- The William Morris Society
- Victorian Society in America
- Young V&A
Textiles
- Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.
- Textile Museum (Washington, DC)
- Textile Society of America
- V&A Textiles
Wallcoverings
World's Fairs
Last Updated October 6, 2023
