As much as I am an online for everything person I still love flicking through a magazine. I enjoy savouring the images, I try and see ideas that might work for me and that may enhance my home and I like to know where I can find the featured bits and pieces. All this is easily doable on the internet - call me old fashioned - but I still want the feel of the glossy paper touching my fingertips.
Magazines, especially the interior and home style kind are doing it tough these days. I get it and like many others, because of the ease of our laptops and ipads, I am not as loyal to my subscriptions as I once was. Vivre Côté Paris and Côté Sud from the Côté Maison group are two that I try never to miss. Even if you don't live in France or read French, the homes and apartments photographed are a true visual treat.
If you want to subscribe to these magazines look here and the word you want is abonnement - right up the top on the second line....xv
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I agree, nothing beats a good magazine for inspiration. I'm adding to my to do list a trip to the newsstand at Pike Place Market where you can find all the international titles...Love coming home with a big stack--and a bag of mini doughnuts from the stand next door. Oh, the perfect Saturday morning...
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Like you, I covey my monthly magazines..nothing can take their place and I have not yet been able to warm up the online magazine craze..just doesn't have the same appeal. Plus I am a serial page ripper...and I would miss the empowering art of page ripping way too much!
ReplyDeleteI think you have just given me two that I must have and add to my collection. Thank you!
I love a great magazine as well...
ReplyDeleteI sip tea and imagine what it would be like to sit in these wonderful homes and gardens...worth the price of the magazine because one can return again and again!
I love Cote Sud! Nothing like it, with a cup of tea and a comfy chair outside in the shade...bliss.
ReplyDeleteThe Cote magazines are some of my favorites... The photography is always inspired. The featured houses/apartments are incredible. Everytime I read them, I want to pack up and move to France!
ReplyDeleteI agree Vicki... while it is wonderful to have so many gorgeous images at hand online... I still love having a magazine waiting for me in the mailbox. It's the renovation story or the tale of a tree change that goes into the magazines that will always keep me going back for more. Georgie x
ReplyDeleteBonjour Vicki - I love flicking through magazines there's a sort of buzz I get that doesn't happen with online mags! I think it stems back to my childhood days, living in rural South Australia and waiting for the "Girls Crystal" magazine to arrive in the post. I treasured the moment.
ReplyDeleteI adore the French pubs -- such a different, authentic, layered look from the perfectly symmetrical, irritatingly brand new and matchy-matchy pubs Stateside.
ReplyDeleteThat space above is perfection -- I love the European sensibility of blending unapologetic beauty and exotica and sophistication with realistic comfort and functionality.
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One of my favourite ways to relax is to curl up with a glossy magazine. Thank you for your suggestions. I hope you are well. Can you see signs of spring yet?
ReplyDeleteI feel the same way. There's is something about curling up in a favourite chair with a favourite magazine that a computer cannot match. And there is also that delightful surprise of finding a fat, colourful magazine in one's mailbox that is so welcome. My favourite at the moment is the UK Country Living.
ReplyDeleteI love a beautiful magazine also! Your references and your books have helped prepare me so well for my holiday to London, Paris, and Provence! Blessed to be a reader of your lovely blog!
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My sweet husband always announces it's going to be a great night when he sees my Veranda...Southern Living...Architectural Digest...Alabama ( my new fave! ) House Beautiful...Traditional Home....Garden and Gun! ( yes...we both love it!) and my In Style! Now I can add some more! Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI am obviously online a good bit of the time but nothing will ever replace my print magazines or books. It is just not the same looking at something online as holding a printed copy in your hand. And maybe it's my aging eyes, but they are easier to read as well.
ReplyDeleteI adore looking at these magazines. I rush to the book store when a new one comes out. I only wish I could read the articles. This is a fabulous room.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny, but regardless of the internet and gorgeous interior images at my fingertips, I haven't stopped buying magazines. I can't think of a better way to spend a rainy morning.
ReplyDeleteI love magazines and look forward to the new issue each month. Dog eared, favorite recipes, ideas to use at home, summer or winter.my family know not to open them until I have time to read from start to finish
ReplyDeleteI know as convenient as On line is I need to be able to touch, feel and get my nose up good and close. You can't relax on your couch with a cup of coffee and your lap top you need a good magazine...something tactile.
ReplyDeleteYou can't replace the experience of holding a book or magazine.
ReplyDeleteIt makes me so happy to see that so many people agree with you--as do I--because, as the companion of a photographer, we count on people buying magazines to make our living. It isn't terribly well known but photographers are paid a pittance for online images compared to print versions.
ReplyDeleteAnd just from a fun point of view, I love ripping out my favorite images to keep--especially from Cote Sud!
Absolutely! By the way, the room above is so beautiful! Perhaps only in the Parisian light will it not look gloomy but dreamy, classic and warm.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree with you Vicki!! I also love to browse through magazines! I also love the smell of the paper!
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ReplyDeleteI agree, for me personally, there is nothing like a magazine, cup of tea and an hour or two to dream!
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For me, there is nothing like an actual (real )magazine, book or phone call instead of facebook or texting. Yes, I'm definitely old-school but two of the most important senses are touch and hearing--without them we loose so much of the essence of life.
ReplyDeleteI love my monthly magazines (Vanity Fair and Vogue) but I do buy quite a few less shelter magazines than I did in my designer days. It tooks days to clear them all out and bring them to the recycle center last year. I am quite content with both, nothing beats downloading a book at 9:00 at night and snuggling in for a good read when the urge hits. I just love that we have both options. Happy weekend Vicki. XOXO
ReplyDeleteMerci for leaving a sweet comment in my blog Madame Vicki! I too love magazines, and I look forward to Cote Ouest which they sell here in the US. Also j'adore the "Art & Decoration" magazine there.
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I still stash my mags away for reading on planes. I've worked out over the years that I can knock off a complete Gourmet Traveller on an Adel-Syd-Adel. trip. Nothings quite whiles away the time better. I hope we always have paper mags Vicki, nothing works quite so well as a rolled up copy to whack MOTH over the head with in bed with to halt his snoring. I don't think an iPad would be quite as forgiving.
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Based on your comments, I think there are many of us who still love our time with our magazines. I want those torn pages on my bulletin board or in my ideas binder. I need to be able to group them by room and haul them around in my purse as I shop. I want to study the details and fuel my dreams as I plan my next decorating endeavor.
ReplyDeletefunny! I just purchased those magazines tonight at the train station!!
ReplyDeleteI to love holding and flipping through the pages. It's hard with so few American magazines out there now, I purchase mostly British and French now. Which cost me a fortune every month.
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callie
funny! I just purchased those magazines tonight at the train station!!
ReplyDeleteI to love holding and flipping through the pages. It's hard with so few American magazines out there now, I purchase mostly British and French now. Which cost me a fortune every month.
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callie
This room is right up my alley Vicki...my eye went right to the statues on the table and ornaments to the left and right of the fireplace. I am a sucker for tribal warfare :)
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with the magazines. I have several subscriptions from various countries and although I like the ease of the internet there is nothing like flipping, marking, tearing and filing. Such a great sense of satisfaction. Now...if I could just find a scanner big enough for all these pages!
Best wishes for a wonderful weekend Vicki and many thanks again for your thoughtful comment on my expat life :)
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I am with you... there is just something about print. Same thing goes for books. I love the convenience of the ipad, nook, etc. but nothing beats actually holding a book and turning the pages!
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I truly do not spend enough time doing that (and love it so)! Thanks for reminding me.
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