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Collection of over 4,500 innovative materials and processes. Resource for designers of all disciplines - industrial, furniture, packaging, graphics, fashion, interior design, landscape architecture, and transportation.

Browse research projects created by VCU's Interior Design students.

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Subjects: Arts, Performing, Arts, Visual

Bloomsbury Design Library
Bloomsbury Design Library offers cross-searchable access to a broad and expanding range of encyclopedias, reference works, e-books, images, and more covering the global history, theory, and practice of crafts and design.

Professional Practice for Interior Designers
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Human Dimension and Interior Space
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference NA2542.4 .P356 1979 (and other locations)
The first major anthropometrically based reference book of design standards for use by all those involved with the physical planning and detailing of interiors, including interior designers, architects, furniture designers, builders, industrial designers, and students of design.
Time-saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference NK2110. T48 2001
History of Interior Design and Furniture: from ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century Europe
Call Number: NK1710 .B57 2006
Furniture and design are placed within the broader context of social, political, economic, and technological perspectives of each period.
Encylopedia of Interior Design
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference NK1165. E48 1997
Elements of Style: a practical encyclopedia of interior architectural details, from 1485 to the present
Call Number: NA2850 .E44 1996 ( Reference, 1st floor)
ISBN: 9780684835211
Examines the details of Western architectural styles from 1485 to 1996.

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