House Beautiful is an interior decorating magazine that focuses on decorating and the domestic arts. First published in 1896, 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.Hearst Press Room
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.
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)AdWeek Joanna Saltz (2018–present)
References
External links (US) (UK) Official website (TR) 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