Sarah was coveting Matt and Miranda’s subscription to The World of Interiors. This is a high-end, expensive (at least $100 for the year’s subscription) British design/decoration/architecture magazine. The photography is beautiful and they somehow seem to avoid the typical design-porn cliches — it’s not just a sequence of rich person after rich person’s predictable homes.
Some articles:
BREAKING THE WAVES
His studio a fisherman’s carrelet on a jetty by the Aquitaine coast, artist Richard Texier draws inspiration from the ceaseless roll of the ocean. Catherine de Montalembert reportsEXCESS ALL AREAS
The Spanish legation once used mirrors to signal the mainland from this Tangerine dream house now owned by a bohemian design duo. Marie-France Boyer enters their prismPARADISE RECLAIMED
Combining architectural salvage with subtle erotic details – from carnal curtain rails to titillating toile – Sam Roddick’s Hampstead home sins with originalityBOMBAY MIX
Sixteen scruffy sketchbooks filled with keenly observed watercolours of Indian life shed light on a widowed Edwardian adventurer – and the colonial mindset, say Annabel Freyberg
The magazine seems to take its name seriously in that it really does focus on “interiors,” rather broadly understood, including quirky spaces like the artist’s houseboat-studio. Not really my thing, but I can appreciate it to a degree. Anyway, the reason I’m blogging about it is Sarah’s innovatively thrifty means of consuming it. Miranda mailed her the entire 2008 run, all twelve issues. She allowed herself to read January and put the rest of the top of a high shelf. On Feb. 1 she took down February 2008. So, barring weakness of will, she’ll go through the year like that. Pretty clever, although these magazines are heavy so it was probably somewhat expensive for Miranda to mail them (but hey, that was on her dime — just kidding, Miranda, we appreciate it).
Of course, Sarah’s design schemes for our house will be a year out of date, but I suspect that for us that would be a big step up.
Ivan Kreilkamp 
Sarah’s showing such restraint!
Never fear, the interiors of World of Interiors are timeless. The British must have been using identical print on curtains, wallpaper, chair and headboard in one room for decades if not centuries.
I am desperately trying to find the April 2009 issue for my boss. If Miranda (sorry to be so informal) has kept and is willing to sell her copy, please let me know. Tel. 212-727-8888.
Thank you.
Sarah now has Sept ’08 – Aug ’09, so it’s her call. I bet she has her price.
It’s the same way Miranda eats chocolate–painfully slow!