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
Welcome to the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives' Decorative Arts and Design Research Guide. This is a select list of mostly freely-available resources for students, teachers, and reserachers to learn about Decorative Arts and Design. Please feel free to Contact Us with suggestions for additional resources or with questions.
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
- ArtMetal Village
- Arts and Crafts Society
- 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
- American Art Pottery Association
- 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 Memory - Advertising (Library of Congress)
- 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
- The Center for Universal Design
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
- Chuck Fischer Studio
- Goralnick Collection - Bowdoin College, ME
- Mark Hiner- Paper Engineering and Pop-Ups
- The Moveable Book Society
- World of the Child - Pop-Up and Movable Books (U. of Delaware)
Smithsonian Institution Resources
- Archives of American Art
- Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum
- Encyclopedia Smithsonian: Arts, Design, and Crafts
- Science and the Artist's Book (Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition)
- Smithsonian Craft Show
Special Interests
- British Button Society
- International Fan Collector's Guild
- Museum of the City of New York
- National Button Society
- The Art Deco Society
- The Ephemera Society of America
- The Museum of Childhood (The Victoria and Albert Museum)
- The Victorian Web
- The William Morris Society
- Victorian Society in America
Textiles
- American Textile Museum (DC)
- Handweavers Guild of America, Inc.
- Textile Museum (Washington, DC)
- Textile Society of America
- Textiles Links (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Wallcoverings
World's Fairs
Last Updated May 10, 2022
