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Post by jamie on Jun 17, 2004 1:15:23 GMT
It's such a nice magazine. It's so aspirational but I feel that it does it in a nice way. And it's such a pretty magazine. You look at all the pictures of amazing furniture and pottery and stuff and you think how ace. I could never afford any of the stuff that's in there but you know how with some beautiful things, looking is part of the fun.
God I'm talking about it as if it were a wank mag. And it's not at all but I really like it. I like all these glossy magazines with lots of arty photos. I guess what I like about wallpaper* is while they are advertising all the designers through the product placement, there is nowhere near the same amount of advertisment as any of the other "lifestyle" magazines such as i-d etc. I only got wallpaper this month but it's about 1 advert every four pages or which I can deal with as opposed to every second page.
Mind you, knowing my luck with magazines, it will shut down.
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Post by zaffra on Jun 18, 2004 15:59:02 GMT
It used to be good and have very high standards, when it started it was quarterly? or bi monthly. it looked different and had a real global appeal - The loss of Tyler Brulee and the buy out by Time Warner have watered it down into just another interior/design mag. It's still good, but not quite so innovative or has quite such high standards - it's also becoming repetative.
Still we all like shiney new things don't we?
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Post by jamie on Jun 18, 2004 18:06:13 GMT
I love shiny new things. Even when I can't afford them.
And maybe I particularly like this magazine because I got it this month when it's a sort of annual. And I didn't expect any real content apart from pictures and descriptions of lovely items.
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Post by splendidchaps on Jun 21, 2004 11:44:14 GMT
And Wallpaper* (how pretentious is the *? I love it.) has expanded the Navigator* section of its magazine into a nice bi-annual stand alone.
Now, you too can look at all the pritty* (*with an i) things in all the beautiful places you can never possibly afford to go unless you sell advertising for Wallpaper* or just happen to go to a shithole like Camden by accident and declare it *kool* because an art school reject makes "interesting" (i.e. expensive) pottery in a crack den there.
Not that I'm jealous. They just stole my idea for a fabulous travel magazine, that's all.
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Post by David Hunter on Jun 21, 2004 11:48:27 GMT
I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when Wallpaper* first appeared. I thought it was the most cutting edge thing I'd ever seen and the fact it was an occassional publication rather than a definate monthly was so appealling.
About 10 issues in they published an article on the attractions of wearing and using fur. I'm not a miltant campaigning type but it was such an insulting article - more or less saying aren't these people who don't wear fur just stupid and scummy - that I decided to write to them.
Was stunned when, rather than the letter be dealt with on their letter page, I received a personal reply which said in no uncertain terms to f*ck off, they didn't want my sort bying their mag anyway!
Having said that, it was fabulous in it's day but is now £4 quids worth of glossy adverts bound together.
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Post by zaffra on Jun 21, 2004 14:04:52 GMT
And Wallpaper* (how pretentious is the *? I love it.) has expanded the Navigator* section of its magazine into a nice bi-annual stand alone. It's Wallpaper* * the stuff that surrounds youbut yes it's pretentious Don't know what tag line Navigator* will have.
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Post by redrydler on Jul 17, 2004 12:17:47 GMT
I love Wallpaper, although I'm now worried about the fur thing. But it wouldn't be the same without some kind of arrogance. Its aspirational without any hope of being there, so I can read about the current fashion in home bars and designer sideboards, without really expecting to own one.
I like Wallpaper so much that we nicked the design for our college yearbook, which consequently looked great. It was entitled Yearbook*
*a book about a year
Not many people got the reference. When browsing Wallpaper on the train fellow readers nod at each other, I've found.
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Post by ste on Jul 20, 2004 17:38:22 GMT
When browsing Wallpaper on the train fellow readers nod at each other, I've found. That's the worst thing I've ever heard. Seriously. Well, today.
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