Decorative Designers

{{Short description|19th- to 20th-century American artistic group}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox art movement

| name = Decorative Designers

| image = Books_Wanted_logo_from_Harper's_Magazine_December_1918_issue.jpg

| alt =

| caption = "Books Wanted" by Charles Buckles Falls (Harper's Magazine November 1918)

| yearsactive = {{circa|1895–1931}}

| country = United States

| majorfigures = Henry Thayer, Emma Thayer, Charles Buckles Falls, Jay Chambers, Rome K. Richardson, Adam Empie

| influences = Art Nouveau

| influenced =

}}

Decorative Designers AKA "DD" (1895–1931) was an American firm of artists, each of whom designed various aspects of books and other publications, "an early example of division of labor in creative work." The "DD" monogram appears on more than 25,000 book covers, dust jackets, and text decorations of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

{{cite web

| title = Decorative Designers (firm, 1895–1931)

| publisher = University of Alabama

| url = https://bindings.lib.ua.edu/designerbios/decdesign.html

| date = 2005

| access-date = October 9, 2022}}

{{cite book

| first1 = Charles

| last1 = Gullans

| first2 = John

| last2 = Espey

| author-link2 = John Espey

| title = The Decorative Designers 1895–1932

| publisher = UCLA Library

| url = https://bindings.lib.ua.edu/bib.html

| date = 1970

| access-date = October 9, 2022}}

{{cite book

| first1 = Charles

| last1 = Gullans

| first2 = John

| last2 = Espey

| chapter = American Trade Bindings and Their Designers, 1880–1915

| title = Collectible Books: Some New Paths

| editor = Jean Peters

| publisher = R.R. Bowker

| url = https://bindings.lib.ua.edu/bib.html

| date = 1979

| access-date = October 9, 2022}} In 1906, they had offices at 38 Union Square, New York City.

{{cite book

| title = The Trow (formerly Wilson's) Copartnership and Corporation Directory of New York City

| publisher = Trow

| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8cQpAAAAYAAJ

| page = 184

| date = 1906

| access-date = 7 July 2024}}