Directories and Company Profiles:

American Business Directory (ReferenceUSA) -- Full-text.
Business directory covering 12.5 million companies and 125 million residents. This resource provides access and lineage to nearly all of the companies in the US. Use the basic search to find a particular company (Lifestyle Furnishings) and then look at the "holdings" of the company. Use the custom search to find all the companies (by SIC or NAICS) in a geographic region such as county, city or state.

 

Article Searching:

Business Source Premier on Ebsco via NCLive -- Full-text.

Offers full text for more than 1,150 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more

The ABI/Inform group of databases is one of the oldest and best known in the field.

To search them all at once just click ProQuest Direct .

These links to the separate components of this article resource allow for more focused searching.

ABI/Inform Archive on ProQuest-- Full-text.
Full-text of 80 premier business titles, some dating back to the early 1900's.

 ABI/Inform Dateline on ProQuest -- Full-text.
Includes coverage of local and regional business news and other market reports.

ABI/Inform Global on ProQuest -- Full-text.
Includes 1800 business titles and provides coverage of over 60,000 companies.

ABI/Inform Trade & Industry on ProQuest -- Full-text.
The coverage is almost all full-text in this trade and industry database with its focus on marketing and competitive information.

Disclosure Business File on LEXIS-NEXIS-- Full-text.
Search LEXIS-NEXIS for financials and news articles on companies and business topics.

General Databases

These multi-subject databases allow you to search in journals and magazines on a variety of topics.

Each will include some furniture-related titles.

OneFile from InfoTrac
The largest of our article databases, OneFile provides some full text in addition to citations for millions of articles on a variety of subjects. Includes the publication Furniture Manufacturer.

Academic Search Premier on Ebscohost via NCLive
A multi-subject database with mostly scholarly sources. Includes the publication Furniture Today.

Research Library from Proquest
Includes articles from scholarly and popular sources on a variety of subjects. Contains some full-text.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe
Search within the separate categories for news, business information, legal information, and poll data.

Electronic Books and Reference

Building Codes  (See North Carolina Building Codes for local regulations)

NetLibrary via NCLive -- Full-text.
Search and use electronic books at this site --over 50,000 titles with many on design related topics.
 

Interior Design Web Resources

Architecture and Interior Design for Twentieth Century America
The Gittscho-Schleisner Collection is "comprised of over 29,000 images primarily of architectural subjects, including interiors and exteriors of homes, stores, offices, factories, historic buildings, and other structures." They are located primarily in the northeastern United States, mainly the New York City area, and Florida. Also included are the homes of notable Americans and several U.S. presidents, as well as the 1939-40 New York World's Fair. This is part of the American Memory project of the Library of Congress."

Associations & Organizations

American Society of Interior Designers

International Interior Design Association

Interior Design Trade Associations

National Council for Interior Design Qualification

Designer Biographies

Knoll Designer Biographies
Short biographies on 117 designers.

Universal Design

Blueprint for Aging
Proceedings from a two-day conference, on bringing researchers and gerontologists together with architects and designers. Transcript of the conference.

Center for Health Design
A nonprofit, nonmembership organization working to demonstrate that supportive building design can enhance health and well-being. Links to Center's research, and resources.

Center for Universal Design
"A national research, information, and technical assistance center that evaluates, develops, and promotes universal design in housing, public and commercial facilities, and related products."

HDFS Elderly and Disabled
Links to assistive technology; elderly housing options & preferences; housing, aging, and disability statistics; universal design & home accessibility; and disability and housing information.

Home Modification Action Project
"Toolbox" contains information on how to create a more accessible home.

Materials

Lighting Research Center
World's largest university-based center for lighting education and research. Information on residential and commercial lighting.

Architectural Lighting Magazine

Lighting Design Glossary 

International Association of Lighting Designers 

Eurostone Marble, Inc.
Images of marble, granite, travertine and limestone.

Interstyle Ceramic & Glass Ltd
Outstanding spectrum of color ceramic and glass tiles.