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?
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What a great list! Thank you for taking the time to compile and share these magazines. I need to check some of these out. THANKS!!
Cool! I can vouch that going to Charise's is like loitering in the magazine section of a great bookstore! She's got design covered, for sure – so definitely check out her picks.
Hi Charise: What a beautiful Artichoke cover — a still life that expresses more about the thinking behind design than design as commodity. I'd like to submit two other magazines Cote de Sud (from France — you can get it at the Coop in Harvard Sq) and also World of Interiors. Actually, I have a love hate thing going with these magazines. Yeah, sure you're gorgeous, I say to myself leafing through — but hey you've done nothing to deserve it — what doesn't look great on the coast of France by the twinkling Med, or what shabby chic is “just perfect” in an marble palace with 47 foot ceilings?
I'm crushed by the demise of decorating & design magazines. I did an R.I.P. post a while back on one of my blogs and it's sad to think it needs to be updated and expanded. For the time being I've got years' worth of issues in stacks around the house from my days of buying half a dozen at a time. Hard to believe we're close to the point of having only gossip magazines to read.
I'm crushed by the demise of decorating & design magazines. I did an R.I.P. post a while back on one of my blogs and it's sad to think it needs to be updated and expanded. For the time being I've got years' worth of issues in stacks around the house from my days of buying half a dozen at a time. Hard to believe we're close to the point of having only gossip magazines to read.
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