World of Interiors

I wouldn't want to imagine life without WOI. It would be a dim affair. I have subscribed for 10 years and every issue of the magazine contains something unforgettable.

I am not an interior designer. I am fascinated by how people live. UNIQUELY, of all the so-called "shelter" magazines, WOI actually is all about YOUR interior life. There will be an article abut some upscale Chelsea apartment, then an article about a mad old guy who has covered his walls in buttons, or a couple that lives as if it is always 1860 in their apartment. I love it.

If you've been reading design magazines and catching home interiors stories over the years you might be closing the book and wondering what catalog house everyone's extracting their furnishings from. Every shot seems to be color coordinated to the nth and filled with flowers. Flowers! Flowers! "Cookie Cutter" for all price ranges doesn't begin to describe the conformity of the glossies right now.

Frustrated, and holding fond memories of browsing the shots of unique European estates in vintage magazines (Helene De Rothchild's dressing room!), I searched the web for WOI. Knew it was pricey but needed something real. Every month I've been rewarded with images from all over the world of the most fascinating rooms, gardens, mansions etc...that give untold inspiration and wonderment. What makes them so special is their individuality and home-owners who are unafraid to be exceptional in the true sense of the word. I marveled at a shot of a kitchen in Argentina. Tiny room, 2 old school chairs, a stone table, a window. No new fixtures, no crazy antiques. I puzzled until I understood that the editors saw the beauty of clean lines, airy simplicity and intentional composition. They had transported me to a different aesthetic leaving behind all snobbery. I asked for authenticity, lush photography, and exquisite cosmopolitan taste and...I got it. Thank you WOI.

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WOI is just the best. If you are going to get one interior magazine, this is it. I've received WOI since the late 80's with only a few years of withdrawl (and those were sad times). It's creative brainfood and inspiration of the highest quality showing up in your mailbox every month... there's nothing better. No, really.

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I stumbled upon this Tome a while back and was very taken with it. Not only are the layouts fabulous but the writers add just a touch of humour to the articles. One of the things I have drawn from the issues is their use of color. I have been able to really track my own preferences from the photos and add them to my storyboard inspiration. Further, the articles are fun and informative, I actually READ them through. WOI manages to be incredibly informational as well as fun. I love finding the "Wink Wink" bits scattered throughout.

I have in-fact, actually contacted some of their featured designers and been very pleased with the results. The magazine may seem unrealistic at first but it is actually very obtainable. Lots of fun and beauty.

One of my favorite features is the learning curve. I discover so much about various cultures in the esoterica of the design world.

Wonderful Magazine.

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This magazine's trade is in ideas; its concern is with the ways people (actual people) can take the fundamental elements of art and reflect them in the places they live and pieces they live with. While certainly there are showcased products (and lots of almost pornographically delicious ads), I have never finished an issue feeling covetous or frustrated, but rather invigorated and full of ideas. That alone sets it miles (km?) from anything else in its genre, but there is also an incredible plurality of aesthetics, equal devotion to opulence and simplicity, preserved antiquity and innovation. Pretty cool.

As someone else mentioned, the writing is genuinely interesting and faithful to what has been invested into these spaces, not who has been investing in the publication. Inspiration also comes from anywhere, such as a wonderful spread on the 18th-century watercolorist JMW Turner, which left me wondering what other impossibly stupid blindspots I secretly harbored like "landscapes are boring." Many, I'm sure, which is why I subscribe to World of Interiors--to help me see anew!!