Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival

Arts & Crafts Homes and the Revival is a new publication that grew out of Old-House Interiors magazine, itself 11 years old and a sister publication to The Old-House Journal, the original restoration magazine begun as a brownstoners' newsletter in 1973 and formerly owned by our editor and publisher. Our magazines have covered post-Victorian architecture since 1980-including Bungalows, American Foursquares, Prairie School-influenced houses, Sears and other planbook homes, English and Colonial and Spanish Revival houses. In 2005, Old-House Interiors did a pilot issue about the Arts and Crafts Revival, which met with resounding success both in the numbers of copies sold through the newsstand and in advertiser response. So we launched Arts & Crafts Homes as a separate quarterly, vowing to include contemporary practitioners of Arts and Crafts as well as covering the historical antecedents of the continuing movement.

Our Mission

Our mission is to offer expert advice and perspective for those building, renovating, or furnishing a home in the Arts and Crafts spirit. Our mission is to celebrate the revival of quality and craftsmanship. Offering hundreds of contemporary resources, we showcase the work not only of past masters, but also of those whose livelihoods are made in creating well-crafted homes, furnishings, and works of art today. Each issue is a portfolio of the best work in new construction, restoration, and interpretive design, presented through intelligent writing and beautiful photographs.

10 Reasons to Subscribe

(1) There's nothing like on-paper publication! A magazine is in itself a handicraft, a carefully considered and designed presentation. The internet is for follow-up, after you have been inspired by knowledgeable guides.

(2) Regarding the internet: we help you there, too. Each issue includes reference to our website for further resources, suppliers and artisans chosen by the editors, and interaction. The online directory of sources --- our A&C Expo-makes more sense once you're familiar with the magazine.

(3) The photography is superb. A majority is assigned by the editors and art director specifically for use in this magazine, to address the needs of our readers.

(4) Each issue includes 9 or more pages of updated sources, most of it illustrated, chosen by the editors.

(5) The advertising is related to editorial (no lifestyle ads, like alcohol or SUVs), beautiful, up to date, and comes to you from like-minded people doing good work.

(6) It costs $24 per year. It's beautiful and worth saving. When's the last time you paid $24 for a single restaurant dinner? Think of subscribing as buying a bottle of slightly better wine-and then getting to drink it for a year.

(7) Reading the magazine is like joining a very active club, or having friends in-the-know. The editor has been in this field for 28 years, the publisher for 22, the art director for 14, and most contributors for the majority of their working lives. All of our writers are passionate and knowledgeable, not pens-for-hire.

(8) Subscribers, whom we can count on for a year, help us make ends meet. The newsstand is fine for finding new readers. But we barely break even on copies sold that way, and payment doesn't come for six to twelve months.

(9) The Arts and Crafts revival, like the period 1880-1930, truly reflects a movement. Every movement has a publication-both to keep practitioners informed and as a record. It's an egalitarian club of sorts, and you are invited to join.

(10) Editors have egos, too. We like having a thoughtful, paying audience-including you.