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Making an appointment

Viewing Special Collections materials is by appointment only. Contact Christine Mannix (cmannix@ccad.edu).

Bring your CCAD ID card. If your item has a barcode we will "check out" the item. If it doesn't have a barcode, we will hold your ID. For security purposes, we request that you sit at the table across for the circulation desk. One book may be viewed at a time unless special permission is given to view multiple books.

Book handling 101: Wash your hands (no moisturizer, please); no food or drinks allowed; stow belongings; pencil and notebook or laptops only; photos without flash are allowed, but not photocopies. 

Historic Art Books A-I

Art gothique: l'architecture--la peinture--la sculpture--le décor (Gothic art : architecture - painting - sculpture - decor)

​Blue-and-white ware of the Ming dynasty​

Le costume historique, [Historic costume],  A. Racinet (6 vols.), 1888 [includes objects and interiors]

Le Costume historique, trois cent vingt-cinq planches, v. 1-2, (our "mini" Racinet), 1890

​Design decade [Art Deco and Streamlined design from the 1930's]

Deutsche kunst und dekoration (German art & decoration), v. 15 & v. 18 [Art Nouveau and Jugenstil design]

Dictionary of English furniture, from the middle ages to the late Georgian period v.1-3

​Examples of ancient & modern furniture, metal work, tapestries, decorations, etc.

Exposition 1937. Décoration intérieure (Interior decoration)

Frank Lloyd Wright. Special issue of the Architectural forum, vol. 68, no. 1, January 1938.​

Grand Trianon, architecture, décoration, ameublement [Decoration and furniture from Versailles]

Grossherzog Ernst Ludwig und die Ausstellung der künstler-kolonie in Darmstadt von mai bis oktober 1901 (Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig and the exhibition of the artist colony in Darmstadt from May to October 1901) [Jugenstil design]

Guide to the knowledge of pottery, porcelain, and other objects of vertu [various periods]

History of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States, v.1-2 [published in 1834]

In English homes; the internal character, fvrnitvre & adornments of some of the most notable hovses of England historically [v. 2-3: accurately] depicted from photographs specially taken by Charles Latham, v.1-3