Interiors Magazine Closed After 118 Years

Bill Communications, the New York-based publishing arm of VNU Business Media, has decided to terminate Interiors magazine with the printing of its June issue. The monthly magazine for interior designers, founded in 1888 as The Upholsterer, has a circulation of 26,388 (according to Bill's web site).

Management of Interiors — and of Architecture, another magazine in VNU's BPi Communications stable – was switched to Bill Communications last fall so that the books could become part of Bill's Design Group, which had just expanded with the purchase of eight Miller Freeman titles.

“Every management team brings different expectations,” said Julie Lasky, Interiors editor in chief. “I know that the ultimate feeling of the management is that [Interiors] hasn't performed economically to their expectations, but we think they weren't really sure what their goals were at the outset.”

Interiors received seven awards from the Society of Professional Designers last fall.