House Beautiful Explained

House Beautiful
Editor:	Joanna Saltz
Frequency:	10 per year
Total Circulation:	835,005^[1]
Circulation Year:	June 2012
Founded:	1896
Company:	Hearst Magazines
Country:	United States
Based:	New York City
Language:	English
Issn:	0018-6422

House Beautiful is an interior decorating magazine that focuses on decorating and the domestic arts. First published in 1896,^[2] it is currently published by the Hearst Corporation, who began publishing it in 1934. It is the oldest still-published magazine in what is known as the "shelter magazine" genre.^[3]

The magazine was launched in the United Kingdom in the early 1950s, positioned for young 'home-makers.' It is still sold in the UK, where it has a circulation of 93,992.^[4]

Editors

• Eugene Klapp and Henry B. Harvey (1896–1897)
• Eugene Klapp (1897–1898)
• Herbert S. Stone (1898–1913)
• Virginia Huntington Robie (1913–1915)
• Mabel Kent (1915–1916)
• Grace Atkinson Kimball (1916–1918)
• Mabel Rollins (1918–1920)
• Charlotte Lewis (1921)
• Ellery Sedgwick (1922)
• Ethel B. Power (1923–1934)
• Arthur H. Samuels (1934–1936)
• Kenneth K. Stowell (1936–1941)
• Elizabeth Gordon (1941–1964)
• Sarah Tomerlin Lee (1965–1969)
• Wallace Guenther (1969–1977)
• Doris Shaw (1977–1978)
• JoAnn Barwick (1978–1991)
• Louis Oliver Gropp (1991–2000)
• Marian McEvoy (2000–2002)
• Mark Mayfield (2002–2005)
• Stephen Drucker (2005–2010)
• Newell Turner (2010–2015)
• Sophie Donelson (2015–2018)^[5]
• Joanna Saltz (2018–present)

External links

• (US)
• (UK)
• House Beautiful (US) at the HathiTrust
• Voices of Oklahoma interview with Charles Faudree. First person interview conducted on October 8, 2012, with Charles Faudree, interior designer featured in House Beautiful.
• Thoughts of Home: Reflections on Families, Houses, and Homelands from the Pages of House Beautiful Magazine

Notes and References

1. Web site: eCirc for Consumer Magazines . June 30, 2012 . . December 2, 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140418200356/http://abcas3.auditedmedia.com/ecirc/magtitlesearch.asp . April 18, 2014 . dead .
2. News: Top 10 Best Interior Design Magazines on USA . 17 February 2016 . Home Design . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160224230052/http://www.interiorhome.design/top-10-best-interior-design-magazines-on-usa/ . 24 February 2016 .
3. http://www.hearst.com/press-room/pr-823-20120416.html Hearst Press Room
4. Web site: ABC Reports and Data Analysis: House Beautiful. Audit Bureau of Circulations. 30 March 2022. January to December 2021, average circulation per issue. .
5. http://www.adweek.com/fishbowlny/sophie-donelson-named-editor-in-chief-of-house-beautiful/329165 AdWeek