Curated OER
Cardboard Structure: Pyramids
Students design a structure made of cardboard pyramids that will hold their weight. In this pyramid structure lesson, students determine a way to make a structure of interlocking pyramids that are sturdy enough to hold a student's...
Curated OER
Fusing Furniture and Asian Art
Students design furniture. In this visual arts instructional activity, students examine French, Chinese, and Asian art pieces. Students compare the lacquer art and apply the motifs to their lacquer panels and furniture pieces.
Curated OER
Cross-Cultural Connections
Students investigate many of the relationships that contribute to the look and design of decorative arts objects.
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: Art Wonders
Can portraits talk? What's in a landscape? How do artists make furniture? ArtWonders helps young learners ask and answer the kinds of questions that make observing art an interactive experience.
Goethe-Institut
German Design and Fashion From Goethe Institut
The Goethe-Institut provides a wonderful resource leading to many German design and fashion sites on the web. Sites include current national topics in German design and fashion, home and furniture designs from Germany, German designs of...
Library of Congress
Loc: The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
Husband-and-wife design team, Charles and Ray Eames, revolutionized postwar America with loads of practical inventions and designs for everyday living. Exhibition tells the story of their lives and careers.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts: Prairie School
Resource informs how this popular style of house began and which architects started it all. Take virtual tours of several prairie school buildings and view prairie school objects by five leading artists. Biographies are included.
Other
Design Museum (London): A Century of Chairs
Beginning with Michael Thonet's design of furniture in the 1800's, this site from Design Museum explores the changes in the design of the chair through the ages of art.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Wendell Castle
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Wendell Castle is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his furniture design. The biographical data presented is fairly detailed with...
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Wharton Esherick
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Wharton Esherick is described here along with information on his contributions to art through sculpture (using wood) and furniture design.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: John Dunnigan
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, John Dunnigan is described here along with information on his contributions to art through his furniture design.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Sam Maloof
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Sam Maloof is described here along with information on his contributions to art through woodworking and furniture design.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: Judy Kensley Mc Kie
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, Judy Kensley McKie is described here along with information on her contributions to art through furniture design.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian American Art Museum: John W. Perates
As part of the Smithsonian Art Museum's database of artists, John W. Perates is described here along with information on his contributions to art through woodworking (including religious icons) and furniture design.