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Bibliothèque des arts décoratifs, Paris

Special subject collections:
  • Applied art, design
  • Graphic design
  • Architecture
  • Garden art
  • Costume and fashion
  • History of art
  • Photography

They cover the eras from Antiquity to the present.

Searchable holdings (5/2008):
ca. 167,000 records for books, exhibition and auction catalogues, comprising 1,500 'livrets de Salons', 1,800 catalogues of Great exhibitions, 56,800 auction catalogues; 2,600 periodical records (170 current); ca. 52,600 articles from 1958 to 1994. 

The digitised images of the iconographic collection (ca. 12,000 pages) are available on the internet via the recordings of the catalogue. For more detailed information: http://www.lesartsdecoratifs.fr/fr/05bibliothequeartsdeco/03images/page01.html