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Architectural Digest (1-year)

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Publisher: Conde' Nast Publications
Category: Magazine

List Price: $71.88
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Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 18 reviews
Sales Rank: 119

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

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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
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.


Customer Reviews:   Read 13 more reviews...

2 out of 5 stars Once about what you could have, but no longer...   November 7, 2008
Spearhead Soldier
Once upon a time, what you saw in AD was what you might one day be able to do yourself. It was about tasteful, even higher end, but it was obtainable. Now it's about the houses and interiors that even the more successful of us out there will never be able to attain. Please quit touring the houses of the celebrities, the rich and famous, and instead go back to the days of those who were once like the rest of us. In short, go back to when the stuff we saw in AD gave us ideas for our own dream houses. Now you are the tasteful "home" equivalent of People Magazine...


5 out of 5 stars Present   October 6, 2008
Victoria Elizondo


Thank you for a great magazine. This subscription is for my niece that is studying interior and architectural design.

It is her 22nd birthday and she is very but very happy.

Thank you



2 out of 5 stars Magazine Incorrectly named.   June 20, 2008
C. Gallardo (Ecuador)
It should be called "Digest for Decorators with Unlimited Budgets." Once a year there is an "architecture" issue, and there might be one article in other issues with architecture as the subject. If you really want something about architecture, you cannot go wrong with Architectural RECORD.


2 out of 5 stars BUYER BEWARE - Gift Subscriptions   February 6, 2008
Ray (New Jersey)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

I ordered this magazine as a gift for someone, and when the first issue arrived, it came to my house (the billing address) instead of the gift recipient's address. When I called Architectural Digest to have the delivery address changed, they told me that they will not process Amazon orders as gift subscriptions and, in order to have the delivery name and address changed, they would have to suspend the subscription and create a new gift order that would result in issues being delayed or left out.

I have no complaints about the publication, and I have no complaints about Amazon's order processing in general, but I caution you not to purchase this magazine as a gift without verifying that the intended recipient will actually receive the magazines.



5 out of 5 stars ADdicted to AD   November 11, 2007
the Oracle (Pasadena, CA, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

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.


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