House Beautiful is an interior decorating magazine that focuses on decorating and the domestic

Home

A home is a place of residence or refuge. When it refers to a building, it is usually a place in which an individual or a family can rest and store personal property. Most modern-day households contain sanitary facilities and a means of preparing food. Animals have their own homes as well, either...

 arts. First published in 1896, it is currently published by the Hearst Corporation

Hearst Corporation

The Hearst Corporation is an American media conglomerate based in the Hearst Tower, Manhattan in New York City, New York, United States. Founded by William Randolph Hearst as an owner of newspapers, the company's holdings now include a wide variety of media...

, who purchased it in 1934. It is the oldest still-published magazine in what is known by publishers as the "shelter magazine

Shelter magazine

A shelter magazine is a periodical publication with an editorial focus on interior design, architecture, home furnishings, and often gardening.The term is most often used in the U.S. magazine publishing trade...

" genre.

It was launched in the UK in 1989, targeting Middle England

Middle England

The phrase "Middle England" is a socio-political and geographical term which originally indicated the central region of England, now almost always referred to as the "Midlands"....

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Editors

• Eugene Klapp and Henry B. Harvey (1896-1897)
• Eugene Klapp (1897-1898)
• Herbert S. Stone (1898-1913)
• Virginia 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 (Norcross) (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 (2003-2005)
• Stephen Drucker (2005-2010)
• Newell Turner (2010-present)