Fine Arts & Design - Sellersburg: Decorative Arts

Absolut is a specialty wall pendulum clock, whose mechanism is the first of all times entirely made of glass. It blends, in an absolutely original design, the charm of glass and that of the measure of time. Torino, Italy

This site from the University of Virginia has images and history for European American quilting traditions and African American quilting traditions

The professional association for Interior Designers, ASID advances the interior design profession and communicates the impact of design on the human experience

This site features more than 1,000 searchable page documents dedicated to the needs and interests of the collectors of Antique Chinese and Japanese Porcelain. Here you find the history of Chinese porcelain spanning thousands of years, an extensive glossary of porcelain terms and over 800+ translated reign marks and backstamps. A Collectors Discussion Board and its archive with 14,000+ messages with thousands of pictures with comparisons of fakes and genuine antique Chinese porcelain

-Women, those who most often made these textiles, wrote their lives in this visual format. With added information from diaries, letters, and other objects, 19th-century Maryland quilts unfold rich and varied stories of life throughout the state

This collection is supported by illustrated essays, images, and lectures

Over 100 works of Early American furniture belonging to the Chipstone Foundation are now represented in a searchable database produced at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, General Library System, with Chipstone support. Four hundred eighty images (full views and selected details of the furniture) have been digitized in phase one of this project

All quilt pieces are made from embossed English wallpaper that have been colored with metallic paints and sewn on a zigzag sewing machine

Dieu Donne Papermill is a leader in restoring the art of handmade paper

This site is an amazing catalogue of original examples of Tiffany lamps

Over 400 stained glass panes dating to the 13th and 14th centuries have been preserved in three churches in Esslingen. Practically all the themes found in the sculptural repertoire of the great French Cathedrals of this time are represented, including the Virtues and Vices. Even the everyday life of the citizens of Esslingen is reflected, in scenes from the Life of Mary

The Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA) houses what is widely regarded as one of the world's most comprehensive collections of nineteenth and twentieth century decorative arts for the home. Part of the Silver Studio Collection is cataloged on-line; currently this consists of around 1,000 textile samples, around 1,300 wallpaper samples and 500 designs on paper

The collection includes Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese ceramics accompanied by information

The work of Charles and Ray Eames shaped 20th century American design