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Interior Design


This is a selective guide to the library's resources to help you find information on this subject.

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These subject headings may be used to locate books in the Pellissippi Library Catalog and the netLibrary eBook collection.

Call numbers for browsing 
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Databases 
You may access these electronic resources provided by the library for magazine and journal information or full-text reference sources on this topic at the library Online Database page (http://www.pstcc.edu/library/online.html)

ARTstor - museums, archaeological teams, photo archives, and art reference publishers.

Academic OneFile - The premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.

General Business File International -  indexes more than 900 periodicals on a variety of business and management topics from 1980 to the current year with full-text coverage of over 400 publications.

Oxford Reference Online -  contains searchable access to 100 dictionary and reference titles published by Oxford Press including A Dictionary of Architecture, and A Dictionary of Modern Design.

* You may access online databases from off-campus computers by entering your general computer account username and password (used for PSTCC e-mail).  NOTE: Enter your username in this format example: s_jmdoe. It is not necessary to add "@pstcc.edu" for this application.

Journals and Magazines 
  • Architectural Digest
  • Better homes and gardens 
  • Contract  
  • Country Living
  • Home 
  • House beautiful 
  • Interior design 
  • Interiors & Sources 
  • Southern Living
  • Southern Accents

Reference Books 

A Concise Dictionary of Interior design Frederic H. Jones. Los Altos, Calif. : Crisp Publications, c1990. REF NK 1704 .J6 1990

Dictionary of Furniture [edited by] Charles Boyce ; introduction by Joseph T. Butler. New York, N.Y. : Facts on File Inc., c2001. REF NK 2205 .D5 2001

Encyclopedia of Interior Design. Joanna Fitzroy, ed. Chicago, IL: Dearborn Publishers, 1997. REF NK1165 .E48 1997. Entries on individual architects, designers, styles, room-types, and decoration.

Furniture & Furnishings : a Visual Guide Antony White, Bruce Robertson. New York, NY : Design Press, c1990. REF NK2230 .W48 1990

Time-saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning.  2nd edition [edited by] Joseph De Chiara, Julius Panero, Martin Zelnik. New York : McGraw-Hill, c2001. REF NK 2110 .T48 2001 A professional handbook dealing with the planning, design, and detailing of interior spaces. An instant reference library of design data and details.

Web Resources 

The American Society of Interior Designers (http://www.asid.org/) - The oldest and largest professional organization for interior designers

Architecture and Interior Design for Twentieth Century America: Photographs by Samuel Gottscho and William Schleisner (http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gschtml/gotthome.html) - comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures that document important achievements in American 20th-century architecture and interior design.

Home & Garden Television (HTTP://www.hgtv.com/ ) - Here you'll get top tips from some of America's best home builders, remodelers, decorators, interior designers, gardeners, craft experts and lifestyle hosts.