EXCLUSIVE: Cultured Magazine to Launch Cultured at Home in October

HOME RUN: Cultured Magazine, the independent art, design and architecture magazine that broke onto the scene in 2012, is gearing up to launch its first volume of Cultured at Home. Slated for October, the new annual design-focused print edition will be guest edited by Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, curator of contemporary design at the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Cultured’s founder Sarah Harrelson said the home version will capture the art of domestic life, where design shapes culture.

“Cultured has always considered the art and objects we live with to be central to one’s point of view. With this new annual publication, we will further highlight the creatives who power the world, looking deeply at the environments they create for themselves,” she remarked in a press statement sent to WWD Thursday.

The first issue will be distributed at art and design fairs, including Design Miami/ Paris and Salon Art + Design, as well as in galleries, design showrooms and luxury hotels. Cultured has also planned a series of events to celebrate the issue, including private dinners at featured homes in New York, Miami and Los Angeles, panel discussions targeting industry VIPs and more.

Cunningham Cameron said the aim is to put forth a new perspective. “Approaching domestic life as a site for acting out, shaped by evolving aesthetics, reinvention and the interplay of history and progress, we will bring together an expansive mix of interiors, exteriors, objects and design ideas redefining our time,” she said.

Contributors of the first edition include designers such as Adam Charlap Hyman, Sam Chermayeff and Carlos Soto; Apartamento cofounder Omar Sosa Bartolome, and design director Erin Knutson alongside critical voices in contemporary art MoMA’s Ruba Katrib and Jarrett Earnest.

An appetite for personalized interiors, heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic, has led to the launch of several new home publications. On Wednesday, The Grand Tourist with Dan Rubinstein podcast announced it will unveil its first print publication. Salone del Mobile.Milano, which closed Sunday, saw the debut of the first issue of Foster, launched under the Phoenix publishing house. Spearheaded by former Marie Claire Maison Italia editor in chief and local personality Csaba dalla Zorza, Foster’s content is centered on all things lifestyle, with curated sections stretching from design to food, from fashion to travels. In 2023, Grazia U.K. announced the launch of Grazia Casa, following a marked uptick in interiors content online at graziadaily.co.uk.