Research Guides: Interior Design: Finding Images

Image Databases

Artstor This link opens in a new window
More than two million art images for non-profit educational use from numerous art, architecture, and anthropology collections. See More Info for a collection list.
More than two million art images for non-profit educational use from numerous art, architecture, and anthropology collections. See More Info for a collection list.

SPIRO
Visual online public access catalog to the 35mm slide collection of the Architecture Visual Resources Library (AVRL) at the University of California at Berkeley. The collection numbers over 250,000 slides and 20,000 photographs.

OAISter This link opens in a new window
Contains records of digital resources from open-archive collections worldwide.
Contains records of digital resources from open-archive collections worldwide.

Chicago ImageBase
Images of buildings and some architectural drawings. Search by era, architect, designer or keyword.
Visual Arts Data Service (VADS) Image Search
Farnham Campus of The University College for the Creative Arts, UK: Includes over 100,000 images "free for use in education." Includes painting, sculpture, furniture design, graphic design, illustration, book design. Includes images from the Parker Knoll chair collection.
Great Buildings.com
Search by architect, place, or building name.
Note: Not all buildings have accompanying images.
Architecture and Interior Design for 20th Century America
Library of Congress : 29,000 images of interiors and exteriors of homes and industrial, retail and historic buildings.