Saying 2009 was a tough year for design magazines is quite an understatement. With the loss of Domino, Metropolitan Home, ID and scores of others, last year was the hardest ever on the publishing industry.
Like many of you, I’m sure, this hit me pretty hard. I LOVE design magazines. I mean, sure, I love the multitude of design blogs out there (I’d better, right?), but there’s something about holding a magazine (or especially a coffee table book, but that’s getting off the subject), seeing some of the best photographers shots of fantastic rooms, let alone read about how these spaces came to be. The combination of tactile and visual experience can’t be matched online.
I knew I wasn’t the only one who felt this way, so I reached out to my friend, interior designer Charise Glasson, and asked which magazines were her must-haves. And, like a true design fanatic, she reads several cover-to-cover every month. Take a look at Charise’s “Magazines I lust, love and simply can NOT live without” (that was the subject of her email!):
1. Veranda
3. Elle Decor
EDIT: Southern Accent was actually one of the victims of 2009.
9. Elle Wonen
10. Haute Living
13. Real Simple
14. Home & Design
15. Dwell
16. Artichoke
She also included a number of local magazines separately:
17. New England Home
19. Boston Home
20. Boston Design
Wow, what a list! Thank you, Charise! What interesting to think is, to manage annual subscriptions to all of these magazines, you’d have to renew roughly two subscriptions every month. At $10-20 per subscriptions, it’s not a huge expense per month, especially compared to what it would cost over the counter -
What about you? What magazines can simply NOT miss an issue of?
