Metropolitan Home magazine to publish last issue in DecemberMetropolitan Home will cease publication with its December issue, the latest home decor magazine to succumb to the industry's advertising slump. The magazine, owned by Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., had a circulation of a little more than 560,000 at ...

Margaret Russell, Elle Décor’s editor-in-chief, is so over the $22,000 picnic basket. Several months ago, she said, her magazine ran an item about just such a high-end weave. “I would never dream about doing that now,” Ms. Russell said. “It just seems vulgar, and vulgar is not a ...

The city was quiet on Monday evening, Sept. 29. Most New Yorkers were either celebrating Rosh Hashanah or feeling too down on the economy to venture out for a social gathering. But on the third floor of Christie’s in Rockefeller Center, socialite and interior designer Celerie Kemble welcomed friends ...