Lush TextileTextile Fabrics3 InteriorInterior FurnishingsFurnishings MogulSingapore MagazinesPrestige MagazineMagazine ExploresLifestyle MagazinesForwardPrestige Singapore Magazine - Buy, Subscribe, Download and Read Prestige Singapore on your iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android and on the web only through Magzter Sure, chocolates and roses are perfectly nice, but why not surprise your Valentine with something a little different this year?Go to our email web formNext month, Milieu, a quarterly magazine about home décor, will make its first appearance on newsstands, showcasing international houses and gardens the old-fashioned way: on thick, glossy paper. Its founder and chief editor is Pamela Pierce, 63, an interior designer in Houston who is embarking on her first publishing venture. Speaking to a reporter recently, she sounded self-assured, but didn’t shy away from the word “crazy.”Q. In recent years, we have seen the deaths of eminent shelter magazine like Metropolitan Home, House & Garden and Domino.

Why are you starting Milieu in these perilous times?A. So many people ask me that question. My career has been in design for 30 years, and anyone who loves design loves good magazines. We get our inspiration from them.I’m very close with Lisa Newsom, who was editor of Veranda. I didn’t want to do anything that was competitive. When Lisa told Hearst she was stepping down a few years ago, I started thinking about it seriously. The magazine was sort of a continuation of design because, basically, I could see it at the end, just as I can see a design project — the whole project in my mind — exactly as it’s going to be.She said, “Don’t do it.” I thought about it for 30 minutes. “I know people told you not to start Veranda and you did anyway,” I said. In fact, she mortgaged her house to start it. Reading magazines with a design professional’s eye, did you do anything differently?I wanted to bring a different perspective to editorial. And I wanted to search for designers who haven’t been published that much.

It’s a little schizophrenic right now in the design world. It’s like people don’t know what direction to take. I love antiques and I think you need some in your home to bring the past in along with the future. I’m just seeing a lot of throwaway furniture in houses. I want to show people that you can mix the new with the old; you can still honor both.buy christmas light fusesWhat’s going into your first issue?exterior paint ideas benjamin mooreWe’ve got a house from Geneva, Switzerland, and one from Belgium. gray exterior paint benjamin mooreWe have a really great house from California. A wonderful loft from Houston. The fabulous house on the cover is a Dallas home. We’re doing a feature called “Fashion Meets Furnishings.”

Angela Scott is a shoe designer I met in Montecito who had to move to Dallas because of her husband’s business. I thought it would be so much fun to take her leather and upholster some chairs. And you’ve been able to attract advertising? We have gotten several national advertisers and we’ve gotten a lot of local advertisers. We feel really confident. My husband is generous and has funded this for me. We both worked very hard through our lives, and when I told him this is what I wanted to do, he said, “Let’s do it.” But I wouldn’t have done it if I felt I was going to fail.Will you continue to practice design?I have some clients that I cannot not practice for: they couldn’t handle it because they’re so used to having me. But we’ve just been turning down jobs. I’m working probably 16-hour days. We’re all wearing many hats and trying to keep our employees at a minimum.But you’re having fun?I’m traveling everywhere to go on these photo shoots and meeting the nicest people.

It’s just new to me. And I hate these interviews. I’m always so nervous. Unfortunately I have a terrible West Texas accent and these interviews bring it out of me.What is your own home like?But I love woods, and I’m very tactile.Your preference for white doesn’t seem to be reflected in Milieu.I love color as well, but I just can’t live around it. I work all day with patterns and prints. When I come home at night, I just want to be soothed. When I was getting ready to have my house shot by Veranda, I have this circular sofa and said, “Let’s get this covered in some fun fabric.” I covered it in gray. The next day I decided I couldn’t live with it and I changed it back.When it’s dinnertime, go for the gilded. Organization has never looked so good. Allow us to bowl you over. Make better decisions, faster IBISWorld's Industry Research Reports are powerful business tools that provide strategic insight and analysis on over 700 U.S. industries. Extensive, objective and easy to digest, IBISWorld research offers the very latest content on every U.S. industry that help you make better decisions, faster.

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