Furniture Research

Furniture Choices:

The Director wants   an   Elegant Ninteenth Century Interior your choice is:
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Two good subjects to search are: LC SUBJECTS:  Furniture and Interior Decoration Furniture is a very broad subject with many books. Notice there are Related Subjects, which deal with specific types of furniture, such as: bentwood furniture, or living room furniture. You may also subdivide your subject and search for a specific century. Try a subject search for Furniture History and you will see subdivisions like: Furniture -- History -- 15th century Furniture -- History -- 16th century Furniture -- History -- 17th century you may also subdivide a subject by geographic area: Furniture -- Great Britain Furniture -- United States These same subdividions can be used on the LC SUBJECT: Interior Decoration, is a broader subject. See how much more information is available in this area.       example two

Glove shaped Chair

The Art and the Architecture Urban Planning Librarieshave many books, which are good sources for furniture or interior decoration black and white photography books offer pictures of homes of both the wealthy and the poor portraits offer illustrations of both interior and exterior settings Two other good areas, which provide descriptive information are found in the subdivisions of -- Description and travel -- Social life and customs You search for these subdivisions under the geographic area, e.g., Russia -- Description and travel Russia -- Social life and customs Both of the examples above can be further subdivided by century.       example three                         Return to top

Your resource doesn't need to come from a book it may be: your own drawing a photograph you took an advertisement a postcard Remember if you are going to use the online catalog, two of the best LC SUBJECTS to use are: Furniture and Interior Decoration Because these are broad subjects, you should subdivide them geographically e.g. Furniture Colonial United States or chronologically, e.g. Furniture History Interior Decoration Interior Decoration United States Interior Decoration History You may search by the LC SUBJECT: Chairs, but be careful with this search or you may find yourself looking at business sources, which include Chairs of the Board of Directors.      Remember your resources can be from: Your Resources can be from: Books: Postcards Magazines Advertisements Photographs   Your imagination. . . You decide But you need to use common sense when you determine if any of the above depict an "elegant twentieth century interior" Return to Drama 101 Design Concept Research Pages Research Homepage Plot Summaries Critical Sources Pictorial Production Histories Reviews Drama & Theatre Pages Drama 101 Researching Playwrights Drama 210: | General Info Chair Assignment | Opera Assignment Design 514 English 518A-Shakespeare