Wallpaper* Magazine

Pros: Beautiful people, place, and things
Cons: I don’t work at wallpaper

This is the magazine to get if you globally travel frequently on business, or if you just like looking at gorgeous expensive things. I vehemently disagree with some that say the tone of this magazine is that they are better than you, and that life is ...

Pros: You feel clean just reading it.
Cons: Depressing that you can't live like they can.

I first discovered this magazine back in 1998...about the time the 10th issue came out. I only knew of two places to buy it in Atlanta: Banana Republic, and for some odd reason, the A&P Supermarket!

Anyway, I stumbled upon it by accident at...

Pros: Great photography, cool, funny, tons of information
Cons: Very thick, doesn't travel well, short useful life

Wallpaper basically sells the idea that everyone's life will be SO much better if they own that $2000 pair of shoes or god ugly $5000 Italian sofa. At least you would think so at first glance.
The first time I saw the magazine I jumped to...

Pros: More, more, more!
Cons: More eventually means less.

I was in the airport the other day, at the magazine stand, when the woman next to me pulled a copy of Wallpaper to her husband and gasped: "God, could it be any more materialistic? It's dripping with products and things that have absolutely no base in...

Pros: Gaudy, deliciously so; readable
Cons: A bit pricey, compared to its ilk

Oh how I love Wallpaper*.

A magazine that looks like it was designed by Jeff Koons and reads like Edward Said dropped acid and decided that colonialism may indeed be evil, damn, it gave us the ability to decorate really well.

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Pros: fantastic writing, photography, layouts
Cons: cover price

I walked into the local Barnes & Noble to find my date nursing a hazelnut-flavored steamed milk. “Have you been waiting long?” I asked. He shook his head and pushed an open magazine across the table to me. The article of apparent interest was...

Pros: It is beautiful
Cons: It is expensive

I really like Wallpaper*. It is mostly because it is highly inspiringly to flick through. There are beautiful pictures and stories which tell me about places, things, people and happenings that I can't read about everywhere else.
It is quite...

Pros: Promotes All Things Swedish
Cons: You can't figure it out?

OK, I admit it. Eons ago, when this hefty bimonthly magazine first started making the rounds of all hip, stylish homes, I would place a fresh copy in prominence on my coffee table and even - yes, true - considered replacing my wardrobe with nothing but...

Pros: Great design, great content.
Cons: Too much architecture.

This magazine is definitely not just for women or for men. It's for people with money! In it you'll find lots of really cool stuff you can't really afford, but you'll want to get them just the same. But there are also other interesting stuff that you can...

Pros: Interesting content, great photography, beautiful models, interesting travel features
Cons: Pricey, everything featured is too expensive

Wallpaper is the perfect magazine for discovering those things you absolutely can't live without, but have absolutely no use for. Everything featured in the magazine is ultra-cool and ultra-pricey. From the restaurants and lounges reviewed, to...

Pros: It humbles you.
Cons: It humbles you.

My good friend Super Don Ban, who is a graphic design God (one of Print magazine's Top 20 Graphic Designers under 30 in 1999), introduced me to Wallpaper*. Super Don Ban lives the life portrayed in this magazine. Whereas I add furniture...

Pros: photograpgy layouts Cute models
Cons: travel food articles

WAll Paper Magazine- A Lifestyle


Wallpaper Magazine has a totally fresh perspective on decorating and
home accessories. The magazines innovative layouts are not like any other
Home and lifestyle magazine. The photography is...

Pros: page after page of art/design
Cons: subscription price

Wallpaper is one of those magazines so full of imagery and information, it's a visual overload for your brain. By the time you actually go cover to cover, the mag will be shredded and dog-eared from over-use. It is a thick mag as well. That many pages...

Pros: Brought an interest in good design to the masses
Cons: Lily white models

Wallpaper* is one of the most influential magazines to emerge in the past decade. Clean, modern, and decadent, the magazine set the tone for the dominant look of the last two years. From ads for Target to the Banana Republic catalog, its artistic style...

Pros: Interesting layouts, great photo spreads. Versatile.
Cons: slightly pricier than the normal magazine and hard to find.

Wallpaper*. Titles on products today are becoming more and more familiar because they were already names of everyday products, and this one is no exception. The difference is the content, and having boycotted magazines for almost a year...