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This is confirmed by a look at some 50 of the other entries that will go on display next week at the American Institute of Architects headquarters in Washington. They illustrate our time's bewildering embrace of almost anything: from architectural stunts to sculptural theatrics, from the pompous to...
Geo was never the kind of magazine that Architectural Digest Editor in Chief Paige Rense wanted around the house. It was glossy and expensive ($4 per copy) all right, but it was also depressing. Too many images of death, disease and disaster. "Pictures of animals being slaughtered," she shudders. No...
This will be like turning pigs' knuckles into pate, but Rense, 47, has performed similar transmutations in the past. Cleon Knapp's Architectural Digest was a little-mown trade journal with a circulation of less than 50,000 when Rense, an advertising representative for California sportswear and cosmetics...
Still loosely edited, the magazine gushes on ad nauseum about the "intimacy" of luxury home furnishings, and despite its name, it has little to do with architecture. But Architectural Digest aims to dazzle the eye, not challenge the mind. Each issue contains about a dozen lavish photo tours of opulent...
A native of Des Moines who attended California State University in Los Angeles, Rense says she has turned down bribes - and at least one proposal of marriage - from people who wanted to be in Architectural Digest. If homeowners are flattered to be picked, decorators and builders have more pragmatic reasons...