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Architectural Digest (1-year)

Architectural Digest (1-year)


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Publisher: Conde' Nast Publications

List Price: $71.88
Buy New: $24.00
You Save: $47.88 (67%)



Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 16 reviews
Sales Rank: 189

Format: Magazine Subscription, Print
Type: Consumer magazine
Subscription Issues: 12
Subscription Length: 12 Months
Issues Per Year: 12
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10 Weeks

ASIN: B00005N7OM

Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months

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Editorial Reviews

Who Reads Architectural Digest?
Architectural Digest is the world's leading design publication, with a total audience of nearly five million. Its readers are successful, sophisticated and well-read; they recognize and appreciate good design--whether it's found in a chair, a yacht or a house--and they expect to see spectacular photographs and informative features about extraordinary interiors and architecture along with well-written articles about home electronics, travel and automobile and jewelry design.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:
Whether highlighting an art-filled Manhattan townhouse, a modern dwelling in Japan or a California vineyard residence, each issue of Architectural Digest presents an arresting mix of interior design and architecture from the world's leading designers and architects. Regular columns include:

  • AD Architecture: Highlighting projects by the foremost architects working today.
  • AD Travels and AD Shopping: Noted designers take readers on a tour of their favorite shops and sources in cities around the globe.
  • AD Electronica: The magazine's guide to new and interesting home electronics.
  • Estates for Sale
  • Great Design Under $100
  • Discoveries By Designers: Presenting singular designer sources.
Each year, Architectural Digest publishes several special issues: Before & After, Designers' Own Homes, American Country Houses, Exotic Homes Around the World, and the Architecture Issue. Other special editions include Designer Secrets Revealed, Hollywood at Home and the Great Design Issue. The popular AD100 has become the definitive directory of the top 100 designers and architects working today.

Feature Articles: Every issue of Architectural Digest presents residential design around the globe. The stunning photographs give readers the opportunity to "walk through" a home, along with informative and entertaining feature interviews with designers, architects and homeowners. In addition to regular design features, there are profiles of fascinating people, such as Ted Turner; Steven Spielberg; Anjelica Huston; Lance Armstrong; Diane Keaton; Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones; Sting; and John Travolta and Kelly Preston. Several times a year, Architectural Digest publishes several special sections, including Hotels Around the World; AD Style, a collection of some of the most innovative design around today; and Motoring by Design, which highlights automotive innovations, concept cars and automobile collectors, like Nicola Bulgari of the legendary Italian jewelry firm.

Past Issues:

Contributors:
Architectural Digest contains the work of some of the finest writers and photographers working today. Contributing Writers include Paul Theroux, fiction, non-fiction and travel writer; Patricia Leigh Brown of theNew York Times; Gerald Clarke, biographer of Truman Capote and Judy Garland; Nancy Collins, author of Hard to Get: Fast Talk and Rude Questions Along the Interview Trail; architecture critic Joseph Giovannini; Judith Thurman, author of biographies of Colette and Isak Dinesen and featured writer for the New Yorker ; architecture writer Mildred F. Schmertz; writer and critic Amanda Vaill; and Pulitzer Prize-winner Susan Sheehan.

Among the Contributing Photographers are legendary photo journalist Harry Benson; Durston Saylor; Mary E. Nichols; Scott Frances; Derry Moore; Robert Reck; Peter Aaron; and Tony Soluri.

Magazine Layout
Architectural Digest takes readers inside some of the most extraordinary homes being created today with stunning photographs and well-written and informative articles.

Comparisons to Other Magazines
Architectural Digest is regarded as the only magazine that brings its readers exclusive international coverage of the best interior design, architecture, art and antiques--along with select stories on travel, jewelry design and luxury automobiles.

Advertising
Architectural Digest advertisers represent suppliers of the finest home design products available, from fabrics, furniture and carpets, kitchen and bath suppliers as well as luxury automobiles, fine jewelry and watches, electronics, art and antiques. The magazine's readers see, source and buy products directly from its pages.


Product Description
The definitive design magazine, Architectural Digest takes you inside the world's most beautiful homes. With stunning photography and the best writers, it is the premier interior design magazine, featuring classic and contemporary styles. Your subscription includes the annual special issues: Before & After and Designers Own Homes.

Abstract

Magazine showcases residences throughout the world. Presents outstanding residential interiores. It exemplifies fine art, antiques, architecture, and gardens.



Customer Reviews:   Read 11 more reviews...

2 out of 5 stars Try 'Architecture' and 'Dwell' Instead   May 24, 2004
Robert I. Hedges
88 out of 93 found this review helpful

'Architectural Digest' has changed over the years to become fussier and more lifestyle oriented than substantial architecture and design commentary. I still have a subscription, but intend to allow it to lapse when it expires for three primary reasons:

1) The magazine is huge and cumbersome, largely due to the massive quantity of advertisements;
2) The magazine exclusively highlights gazillion dollar homes, that only are a factor for celebrities;
3) Stylistically, the magazine seems stuck in a rut of cluttered end tables and credenzas, overstuffed pillows, and no space on a wall unoccupied by a huge, gold, gilded framed picture from eighteenth century France.

I don't like clutter, and I don't like being ornate to make a house look rich. That's why I no longer think this is a magazine that I really need. For me I will read 'Architecture' for serious architectural commentary, and 'Dwell' for reasonable (and financially attainable) interior design commentary. Thanks, but no thanks.


4 out of 5 stars Architectural Digest: the source for interior designers   March 11, 2002
67 out of 73 found this review helpful

Architectural Digest is not an "architecture" magazine as many people believe it is. It began as an architecture magazine, but slowly became known for its coverage of building interiors that consumers wanted to see. This is true today, as the cover article is generally the about the interior of a famed actor, politician, designer, or artist's home. These articles are remniscent of a paper version of MTV's show "Cribs." While the articles about the interiors dominate, an accompanying photograph of the exterior tags along when appropriate. The articles discuss the ideas, sources, materials and inspiration behind the designs pictured. Each magazine generally has about one dozen such articles plus features.
The magazine caters to the needs of interior designers and those who can, or wish they could hire them. The magazine does not promote or favor either traditional or modern design.
AD (as it calls itself) is full of advertisements. Some people may find this irritating, but for a designer, decorator, or client searching for inspiration or sources this information is equally valuable as the articles and features. Ads are just as telling of where the industry is going and where it has been as any picture or text.
If you subscribe, do it because you know and want what AD is. It is expensive, thick, and very useful if you are interested with the cutting edge of interior design. Do not get it to learn more about architecture or for the quality or readability of its text. Pictures and advertisements are the game with AD.If you are still unsure, pick up one at the newsstand and check it out before you buy 12 issues - most issues are like the others and "special" issues are frequent but not really that different from the norm.



3 out of 5 stars Mixed Bag   September 12, 2003
Joshua Drake (Angola, IN)
49 out of 51 found this review helpful

I used to love Architectural Digest. I got to admire and be inspired by incredible homes, and I couldn't wait to get my issue every month.

However, lately, I have seen less Architecture than Interior Design, and more ads than ever. I've even let my subscription lapse. Every now and again, I'll pick it up on the magazine rack, but only if the issue is architecture heavy, or covers a particularly interesting project in depth.

Architectural Digest used to be the pinnacle in the field, but now it is just a mixed bag.


4 out of 5 stars House Pornography   March 5, 2005
J. Brian Watkins (San Dimas, CA United States)
27 out of 30 found this review helpful

In summary, this magazine portrays houses that you can't possibly ever hope to own in an "airbrushed" presentation that can't possibly match real life; it is "house pornography". It is exciting to read and puts plenty of ideas into your head.

You have to determine whether repeated exposure to this type of media will enhance your life or make you miserable. Hey, if you have a spare million dollars and need someone to tell you what is fashionable or in good taste--this is for you!

People complain about the ads--I complain about the articles. People get in the way. I note that none of the owners of these showpiece homes have children--most are living alternative lifestyles. Actually, the house becomes the product of the relationship instead of children. It is a fascinating cultural phenomenon and this magazine is the leading journal of the movement.



1 out of 5 stars Oh Please! . . . .Desecrators digest possibly.   August 5, 2002
RushFanRich (Chicago)
24 out of 39 found this review helpful

If your looking for real Architectural content, look to subscriptions like Architecture or Architectural Record. You can even contact your local AIA (American Institute of Architects) chapter and they will help out considerably.
However, If You want highpriced, bad decorating tips and ads on every other page, not to mention all thoes pesky Ad cards falling out, this is your Mag. It should be renamed "Interior designers' and thier super rich clients."



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