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From sprawling villas to beachside bungalows, mountain chalets to sophisticated city townhouses, Architectural Digest goes inside the stunning homes of the world’s most fascinating people, from Hollywood royalty to political powerhouses, from fashion legends to media moguls. Every issue showcases the talents of their gifted interior designers and architects and reveals the trade secrets that make each home unique.Amazon.com Review
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I cannot say enough bad about this magazine. When House and Garden was shut down last year, my subscription was replaced by AD, and every month when it comes in the mail, I basically take off the plastic wrapping to shred it and then recycle the magazine. I need to find the time to call and cancel it.
There is absolutely NOTHING inspiring or interesting in this magazine. I can’t help but think that only dead or extremely old people would enjoy this magazine. The interiors are dowdy, lifeless, and boring. There are no fresh or new ideas and everything is styled to look like a furniture showroom that does very little business. If I want to feel depressed and smothered, I just have to pick up this magazine.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is a fantastic Magazine, and it was offered at a great price. I highly recommend it.
Rating: 5 / 5
This periodical is not only an investment purchase (save ‘em and sell ‘em on eBay), it is wonderful architectural and design training for your eye. My DH stacks it in the smallest room in the house, since it’s always interesting while you wait.
This is a painless way to develop good taste. The only problem is to figure out how to copy your favorite idea for your own home on a reasonable budget. Some people also like reading about the celebs, who show off the homes they don’t really live in, so their architect and interior designer can get good PR.
Rating: 5 / 5
The subject at hand: a 2-year subscription. The question being: should you or shouldn’t you?
This is surely a personal decision and no one can tell you what to do. However, if it nurtures the mind it is worth the money; if it doesn’t do that it’s called “wasteful spending”. Reminiscent of an old English mariner’s poem, it goes, “… that which nurtures the mind and soothes the soul, ‘Tis worth all my dressings from cap down to sole. Tho if upon uncharted reef it should founder, Wiser to gift it to mackerel and flounder. Chase it no more, chase it no more. Chase it no more, my fine stepping chums….”
One consistent complaint about this magazine is that it highlights an array of beautiful homes, all of them financially out of reach of the majority. This, of course, is absolutely true, and I, for one, hope it stays that way. I’m not interested in seeing Archie Bunker’s abode. That’s why I buy ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST.
Another complaint is that “there are too many advertisements.” This is elemental, but let me say it anyway: Paid subscriptions and newsstand sales play second fiddle to advertising revenue. Magazines need advertising revenue to survive. Their main source of income is ADVERTISING REVENUE.
Anyway, if you can sit through a few minutes of tv commercials you should be able to turn a few pages of advertising. Personally, I happen to like looking at the ads: the photography, typography, art and design. As a thirteen year veteran of the graphic design trade I know and appreciate the “behind-the-scenes” efforts.
We learn, in the course of time, that change is inevitable. I remember when Bob Dylan first went electric. He was booed and the audience chanted, “We want Dylan, we want Dylan….” Well, I see a similarity with Architectural Digest. If the magazine has strayed from its architectural roots, don’t feel betrayed. Change is inevitable. And after all, there ARE a few other magazines out there for you. “Chase it no more, my fine stepping chums….”
Architectural Digest is alive and well, unlike a host of other magazines. If its name, “Architectural Digest,” has become a misnomer, it is not unlike anything else that has “transitionalized” and continues to retain its original name. In New York there’s The New School For Social Research. The school was founded in 1919. Must it now be renamed The “Old” School For Social Research?
I enjoy browsing through furniture showrooms in search of exotic furniture and accessories. Architectural Digest is my showroom at home. I put on Tony Bennett or my “Zen Garden” album. Sometimes I program my player to repeat “You Only Live Twice” or “We Have All The Time In The World,” both from “The Essential James Bond” album. Slowly, the pages turn. Sometimes, but not often, I may read an article. Mostly I ponder the photos and graphics. I gaze at the ocean from my 23rd floor balcony. This is my happiness. This is my peace. Especially knowing that my AD subscription is in place.
Rating: 5 / 5
I picked up the November issue on a supermarket Newsstand because they did a story on Michael Jackson’s Neverland Ranch. Well, I thought, this is an unusual tribute to the late “King of Pop”. By the way the pictures were really beautiful and I will certainly hold on to this as part of my MJ memorabilia collection. The photographer Harry Benson did a beautiful job photographing Neverland and Michael. And he wrote a very nice story. I only wish there were more pictures, there was a foldout with an aerial view of the property however. This one’s a keeper. Well done. This magazine is very well put together. Every store I have been to a week after this hit the newsstands were completely sold out a few days later on this so the subject matter was definitely of interest to a lot of people. I have seen it posted on ebay.
Rating: 5 / 5