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| Publisher: Conde Nast Publications
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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
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 A Great American Magazine May 12, 2009
Ron Z (Atlantic City, N.J. USA)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
 Nice but Boring January 4, 2009
Jaye (east coast, south)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am often amazed by how much money is spent on these homes and how little creativity is involved. I have been a subscriber [a gift from my family] for many many years and the magazine never changes. Every so often there will be something great, but there is much more beige wall to wall than anything else. Tasteful, safe and unimaginative. But of course they have high end advertisers to please. Long ago I stopped using the magazine for ideas.
 Magazine for the dead or soon to be December 16, 2008
nmw (Denver, CO)
3 out of 13 found this review helpful
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.
Architectural Digest - One Fantastic Magazine November 28, 2008
Kathleen M. Price (Tulsa)
Architectural Digest is fantastic. I look forward to receiving it each month to peruse all the beautiful estates, homes, gardens, furniture, art, history, and designs presented that are available not only in all areas of the United States, but also around the globe.
 Once about what you could have, but no longer... November 7, 2008
Spearhead Soldier
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
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...
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