House & Garden (magazine)

House & Garden

House & Garden in 1922 by Clayton Knight
Editor	Hatta Byng
Categories	Shelter
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	120,008 (ABC Jul - Dec 2013 UK) Print and digital editions.
Publisher	Condé Nast Publications (U.K.)
Country	Multiple separate editions (United Kingdom, South Africa, Greece)
Website	houseandgarden.co.uk (U.K. edition)

House & Garden is an American shelter magazine published by Condé Nast Publications that focusses on interior design, entertaining, and gardening.

Its US edition ceased in 1993, and was closed again in 2007 after an unsuccessful relaunch. Foreign editions of the magazine are still published in the United Kingdom (first published in 1947) and South Africa. A Greek edition was launched in November 2007.

The magazine was launched in 1901 as a journal devoted to architecture, and its founding editors were Herbert C. Wise, Wilson Eyre, and Frank Miles Day, all Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, architects.[1] The magazine became part of Condé Montrose Nast's publishing empire when he bought an interest in it in 1911; he became its sole owner in 1915. Nast transformed it into a magazine about interior design, as part of his trend toward specialized publications aimed at niche markets.

The British edition is edited by Hatta Byng, and is very successful and influential, as well as profitable..

The success of the magazine owes much to Robert Harling, who was appointed Editor in 1957 by "Pat" (Iva Patcevitch), the Head of Condé Nast, following his recommendation by close friend Ian Fleming, the author and creator of James Bond.

At House and Garden he appointed a staff of 18 which included Leonie Highton, and later John Bridges, and three outstanding advisers: Elizabeth David (on food), Loelia, Duchess of Westminster (to discover unknown houses), and Olive Sullivan (on interior design). With his dedicated and happy crew he revitalised House & Garden, and produced a Magazine which contrasted the ancient and modern, with colour and simplicity.