Internet Resources
for Interior Design
Below is a basic list of resources relating
to interior design available via the Internet. This is not a
comprehensive list but is intended to help you
begin exploring the Internet.
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Organisations
A.H.R.B.
Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior
This is a multi-disciplinary research project aiming to produce
innovative histories of domestic interiors and social spaces by
combining traditional architectural and design histories with
more recent academic interests sensitive to cultural and visual
context, consumption studies and gender and subject-oriented approaches.
American
Society of Interior Designers
Under the Design section there is an extensive list of museums
and collections. The Business section also contains some useful
further links.
Architecture
and interior design for 20th century America
This site is an online catalogue of photographs from the Gottscho-Schleisner
Collection, 1935-1955, consisting of over 29,000 images primarily
of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of
homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other
structures. Subjects are concentrated chiefly in the northeastern
United States. Many of the photographs were commissioned by architects,
designers, owners and architectural publications, and document
important achievements in American 20th-century architecture and
interior design.
Association of Lighting Designers
(ALD)
This professional body represents lighting designers in the United
Kingdom and worldwide. It covers all branches of lighting design,
incorporating theatre, dance, architecture, industrial and corporate.
The Links section includes information on associations, organisations,
publications and CAD. The Resources section
contains articles, essays and reports.
British
Interior Design Association
View an image bank of examples of designers work along with their
contact details. There is also a search facility for locating
designers and corporate suppliers in the UK.
Centre for
the Study of the Domestic Interior
Based at the Royal College of Art in London, its goal is to develop
new histories of the home, its contents, and its representation.
It pursues research into the changing appearance and layout of
rooms in a range of buildings, from tenements to palaces; the
objects that furnished those rooms; the ways rooms and objects
were depicted; the manner in which people used them; and how they
thought about them.
Design
Council (U.K.)
This includes information on general design principles in the
About Design section. Business aspects of design, design within
the public sector, case studies and recent publications are also
available.
Design
History Society
There is a fee to join this society giving access to their newsletter,
journal and online discussion lists. The free links section on
the home page is very useful including organisations, libraries,
museums, newspapers and universities among others.
Interior Design Educators
Council
This organisation is dedicated to the advancement of education
and research in interior design. It promotes exchange of information
between
individual educators, practitioners, educational institutions,
and organizations concerned with interior design education improvement.
Membership is required to gain access to many parts of the site.
New
York Public Library - Interior Design
The current interior design collection is extensive, with
emphasis on theory and history rather than professional or applied
aspects. It also includes areas closely linked with the study
of interior design, such as architecture, decorative arts, and
furniture history.
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Museums
Arts
and Crafts Museum
This provides a fully searchable collections database exploring
this 19th century interior movement.
British
Museum
Located in
London, the British Museum contains one of the finest and most
extensive collections of art and antiquities in the world, including
decorative arts and objects d'art, from throughout history and
the world. Its Web site includes a tour of the collections.
Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Museum
Located in New York City, the museum's collections cover
applied arts and industrial design, textiles, wall coverings,
graphic design, architecture, urban planning, and environmental
design.
Design
Museum
The Design
Museum in London focuses on industrial design, in particular mass-produced
items. In the Design at the Design Museum section read biographies
and short interviews with a range of contemporary designers.
Geffrye
Museum
This museum contains a specialist collection of English furniture
and decorative arts in a chronological series of period rooms
spanning the past 400 years.
Henry
Ford Museum & Greenfield Village
Located in
Dearborn, Michigan, the Henry Ford Museum features American-made
artifacts and products, including glass, lighting, home arts,
timepieces, silver and pewter, furniture and a lot more. Among
its unique collections are an exhibit of historic kitchens and
the only remaining prototype of Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion
House.
MoDA - Museum
of Domestic Design and Architecture
MoDA has an outstanding collection of wallpapers and textiles
dating from the 1870s to the 1960s. Many of these are the work
of the Silver Studio, one of Britain's leading commercial design
studios from 1880 to 1960. It also includes trade catalogues of
furnishers and interior decorators, the Crown Wallpaper Archive
and an extensive library of books on design, architecture and
town planning.
V&A Museum
View artefacts from a wide range of cultures from around the world.
The site is also searchable via the Site Map.
Vitra Design
Museum (Berlin)
Look at the Travelling Exhibitions section. Read about a
selection of designers and view examples of their work.
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General
Sites
Art
and Culture - Interior Design
Read brief descriptions of a range of designers work. Extensive
lists of related designers are available in each case, plus helpful
categorisation of the movements which each designer was involved
with and relevant links to other web sites.
Arts and Crafts
Movement
The "Movement" section gives brief descriptions of the
main contributors to this design era.
Brittanica.com
- Interior Design
A good overview
of interior design, covering principles, components, styles, and
historical and cultural expressions.
British Castles,
Stately Homes and Houses
View a wide range of historic buildings, many providing views
of individual rooms.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh
- Furniture
Examples of Mackintosh furniture.
Collectics
Browse the Virtual Museum (1890-1935) and Art Deco, Art Nouveau,
1950's and 1960's retro objects.
Cumberland
and Woodcraft Co.
This site offers examples of Victorian and country home
decor from screen doors and gingerbread trim to corbels,
brackets, mouldings, fireplace mantels, home bars, panelling and
wall coverings.
Danish
Museum of Decorative Art
Although the museum features the work of Danish artists and craftsmen,
its collections of glass, porcelain, textiles, furniture, ceramics,
industrial design and other objects are not limited to Denmark
Dansk Mobelkunst
This provides a gallery of vintage design specialising in
Scandinavian furniture from 1920-1975, particularly Danish design.
Browse through the furniture and designer pages.
Design70
Examples of furniture, lighting and general objects from the 1970's.
Dedign4Design
This excellent site contains searchable information on museums/galleries,
design associations and events/exhibitions. It also has articles
and features plus extensive links to other design web sites
Design Addict
This is a good resource for modern, post-modern and contemporary
design of the 20th-21st centuries. You'll find searchable indexes
on designers and producers, on furniture, lighting, dinnerware,
accessories, glass, ceramic, plastic, wood and metal ware. It
also provides an excellent categorised links section plus virtual
exhibitions, essays on design issues, an events calendar and a
design discussion forum.
Designandfun
View the gallery of 1950-1970's items including lighting, textiles
and furniture among others. There are some articles/interviews
with designers, a designers index and an excellent further Links
section.
Design Nation
Search by designer names or subject categories. There is also
a list of retailers/galleries which stock contemporary designs
which searchable by geographical area.
Domestic
Space
This site contains an extensive bibliography of items concerning
the sociological and psychological aspects of home interiors.
Eatmyhandbagbitch
Focus on Scandinavian, Italian and British post-war design.
Fiftie Fiftie - Modern
design, furniture and decorative arts
Explore items in the Gallery section and browse the excellent
Links section to further design web sites.
Founders of the Arts
and Crafts Movement 1870-1900
An anthology of writings on interior design by William Morris
and his contemporaries, with information about the early years
of the Arts & Crafts Movement in England and America.
Genie's Fab Fabrics
Original textiles from the 1950's to 1970's.
Hamilton-Weston
Wallpapers
View a select gallery of original wallpaper designs from 1690-1901.
Interior
1900
This site concentrates on wallpaper samples but also had examples
of retro objects.
Interior Internet
This site shows examples of modern and contemporary furniture,
lighting, carpets, mirrors and screens among others by British,
Italian and European designers.
ISdesignnet
ISdesignNET is the online version of Interiors and Sources
magazine for interior designers and architects. The site provides
access to the current issue and to back issues of the magazine
dating back to March 1995. Articles can be located by topic or
author. A directory and source guide that can be searched
for products, suppliers and services. There is a section dedicated
to the EnvironDesign conference on 'environmental stewardship',
which includes links to pages dealing with sustainable design
issues.
J.R Burrows - Historical Design
Merchants
This is a specialist decorative furnishings supplier in the
English tradition, featuring Arts & Crafts Movement wallpaper,
furnishing fabric and William Morris carpeting marketed as the
Burrows Studio Collection, Scottish lace curtains, and the Stourvale
Mill Collection of reproduction nineteenth century carpeting from
the Federal, Neo-Classical and Victorian periods.
Jetset
View examples of retro furniture, lighting, ceramics, glass among
other items. There are also exhibits, interior tours and a wide
range of articles on various aspects of modern design.
Kentshire Gallery
View examples of fine English furniture and objects from the seventeenth
to nineteenth century.
Lighting Research
Centre
The Lighting Research Centre is part of the School of Architecture
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Browse the Research Topics
section and the Library.
Modern Living - Vintage
Home Furnishings
1950 Mid Century Modern
Classic examples of 1950's household furniture, lighting etc.
Each item is annotated with its designer/maker and a brief description.
Swing
This provides a useful showcase of retro furniture and accessories.
Tapestries
Read a brief description of the development of tapestries and
wall hangings from ancient times to the present and view relevant
examples.
Tim Parsons-designer
In addition to examples of this designer's work this site
is most useful for its Research and Links section where you will
find links to museums, research institutes and designers homepages.
Victorian
Station
Links to many aspects of Victorian life including information
on interiors.
Visual Arts Data
Service
Free registration allows access to extensive searchable slide
collections including those of the Design Council.
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Library
Databases
To access some of the above databases you may require
an Athens username and password. Please contact Library
staff for details.
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