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House & Garden has one of the longest histories of any current British magazine. It launched in 1947, when the country was still struggling with the effects of the Second World War. It was a year of fuel shortages, continued rationing, and freezing temperatures, but what was initially called The Vogue House & Garden Book was designed to delight the eye and distract the mind. It was also designed to be a finger on the pulse of architecture and design, as the UK embarked on the biggest building programme of its history, with millions of much-needed homes being planned and built up and down the country.

Within a decade, the magazine had become so well established in the national consciousness that the comedy duo Flanders & Swann wrote ‘Design for Living’, a song that gently satirised our pages (‘We’re terribly House & Garden – the money that one spends, to make a place that won’t disgrace our House & Garden friends’).

The world has changed since then, and so has House & Garden. But, from looking through the archives, it is clear some things have remained constant – a point of view, an appreciation of a finely decorated room or a well-designed garden, and an interest in the people who created them. The magazine is a mixture of the useful and the beautiful; it embraces the new with open arms, but does not forget the lessons and loveliness of the past. Its editorial team are the custodians of something very special to many people for a very long time, and it is our duty to continue to make it so.

We're also proud to recognise the extraordinary talent in our industry, both established and emerging, through our annual editions of the Top 100 Interior Designers and Architects, Top 50 Garden Designers, and 50 Rising Stars. Each year we also give out our Design Awards, celebrating the creative, talented and innovative individuals, in 11 different categories, who have impressed us most. And while House & Garden has always been a resource for great design and a place of discovery, we’re also working hard to make sure it’s a magazine that celebrates more diverse points of view and better represents the rich tapestry of the world’s creative industries.

Since the website launched in 2014, our digital platforms have become an increasingly important way to reach people. The website itself has a huge audience in the UK, the US and around the world, and millions of people each month view our content through our newsletters, our videos on YouTube, and through our successful social media pages, including Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest and Twitter. You can now see house tours with some of the world's best interior designers, insights into historic houses, gardening tutorials from our garden editor, and much more through these platforms, in addition to enjoying the luxury of the print magazine each month.

It goes without saying that House & Garden is where readers will always be able to see the most beautiful houses and gardens in the world. Our features team, assisted by a variety of expert contributing editors, is constantly on the hunt for the best and most interesting interiors and outdoor spaces out there, working closely with designers to make sure we’re first to see their new projects. But we’re also seeking out interesting and idiosyncratic spaces that have evolved with their owners.

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House & Garden also offers much more than its title implies. Our decoration team put together glorious shoppable schemes and affordable buys each month, while the website offers a constantly evolving directory of where and what to shop. Our food editor Blanche Vaughan curates delicious seasonal recipes for every issue, adding to our vast online archive, and our travel editor Arta Ghanbari presents the best destinations and places to stay on our travel pages, culminating in the House & Garden Travel Guide, on sale with our January issue.

Tying all of this together is an idea that runs through everything we do: House & Garden is a celebration of the life well lived. Our homes, our gardens, the way we spend our holidays, our time off, our money - these are all hugely important. And it feels important to get them right - and work out what feels ‘right’ for you. We’ve been a companion and a guide to our readers for generations, and as new platforms and technologies allow us great opportunities to build a House & Garden community, it feels like we’ve only just begun.

Enjoy your dive into the world of House & Garden.

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Hatta Byng joined House & Garden in 2006 as Features Editor, and became Editor in 2014, overseeing the content and vision across all platforms. Hatta has a lifelong interest in interiors and architecture. She studied History of Art first at Edinburgh and then at the Courtauld Institute, where she specialised in British architectural history. She began her career working in interior design in London. Later, two years spent in Cape Town working for the South African edition of House & Garden was the springboard for her magazine career.

Hatta is seen as an authority within the interiors world, often speaking or chairing panel discussions on the subject and is regularly asked to judge awards within the industry. She sits on the Steering Committee for United in Design, a charity working to increase diversity within the design industry. In 2023 she and her husband won the Historic Houses Restoration Award for the restoration and redecoration of their Regency house in Yorkshire, where they live with their three children.

David Nicholls is House & Garden’s deputy editor and oversees some of the magazine’s key annual editorial moments, including the Top 100 Interior Designers and Architects and Design 100 - our celebration of contemporary design. A features writer who has specialised in international design and decoration for the past 25 years, he did a 12-year stint as Design Editor at The Daily Telegraph before joining us in 2015. David has curated design exhibitions, chaired countless talks and served as a judge for several design awards. Born and raised on the West Coast of Canada, he has lived in London since 1994.

Emily Senior is House & Garden's houses director and oversees the planning, shoots and stories behind all of the houses that make their way onto the pages of the magazine and website. Emily joined House & Garden as a Features Assistant after university, before moving to the online side of things and launching the website. Having overseen it for many successful years, she transitioned to Houses Director in 2023. She is always on the hunt for stories and houses that make us sit up and challenge our preconceived ideas on decoration.

Elizabeth Metcalfe is House & Garden’s Features Editor. She joined the magazine in 2015, with a BA in English Literature from King’s College London and a Masters from the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her interest in interiors was sparked through a Saturday job working in Pentreath & Hall when she was a student. She likes writing about lived-in, layered interiors, as well as discovering little-known craftspeople. Her writing has appeared in Toast Magazine and Cereal, and she has hosted talks for the likes of Christie’s and Collect Art Fair. Her first book, New English Interiors (Frances Lincoln) came out in October 2024 and profiles the colourful, pattern-rich homes of 22 creatives. She lives in Sussex and spends her spare time rummaging for treasure at antiques fairs and walking her dog.

Christabel Chubb studied French & Italian at Bristol University before moving back to London in 2018. As a young teenager she had been given a subscription to House & Garden for Christmas, and had dreamed of working on the features team ever since. Within a year of graduating, she took a job as PA to House & Garden's Editor, Hatta Byng, and later joined the features team, where she now works across print and digital features. She covers news from the design industry and trend pieces as well as craft and design stories. She loves to cook and drink wine, and on any given evening can be found doing just that at her home in south London.

Arta Ghanbari joined House & Garden in 2014 and is the Travel Editor across the magazine and website. Born in Iran, raised in Canada and having moved to London soon after university, she has been working in the magazine industry since 2009 and was previously a fashion editor in Toronto. She’s most drawn to places and people that challenge the traveller to see the world from a new perspective and put one's own life into context. Her search has brought her to the monasteries of Bhutan, the nomad communities of the Mongolian Gobi Desert and the arid south of Morocco from the Souss Valley to the Sahara. Follow her journeys on Instagram @artaghanbari.

Clare is one of the longest-serving members of the House & Garden team, having started as Garden Editor in 2005. Her garden writing career was a happy accident. Having started out in book publishing, she applied for a job as Sub Editor at Gardens Illustrated magazine and spent the next eight years working her way up the magazine. She was Editor there for two years before having children, and was working full time when by chance she heard about the freelance Garden Editor role at House & Garden. It was - and still is - her dream job. She is responsible for all the garden content in the magazine, commissioning writers and photographers, and writing much of the content herself. Clare lives in the Berkshire Downs with her husband and two dogs, and she spends most of her spare time in her own much-loved cottage garden.

Blanche's first job was at renowned London restaurant Moro, where she worked her way up through the positions in the kitchen. Over seven years as a chef she cooked at The River Cafe on the banks of the River Thames, Chez Panisse in California and finally at St John back in London. She has written books under her own name, including In One Pot and Egg, and worked with brands that include Itsu and The Great British Food Revival. She has been Food Editor for House & Garden since 2015.

Fiona McKenzie Johnston has been contributing to House & Garden since 2017. She writes the art pages as well as decorating columns for the website, having started her career with the magazine’s sister publications AD and Vogue.  She has an MA in History of Art from the University of St. Andrew’s, which included the study of furniture and decorative arts, and she came to journalism via a spell in the V&A’s Furniture Department.

Fiona has lived in - and loved - a variety of houses of differing styles, from a Jacobean manor house to a 1960s-designed central London maisonette. She is now in the process of renovating and decorating a Victorian terrace on the East Sussex coast, involving much DIY.   Her spare time is mostly spent on the beach with her children, or at exhibitions, or reading vintage decorating books and biographies and scrutinising the interiors and exteriors of any house she can visit – both for ideas, and because she is endlessly fascinated by how people live.

House & Garden's editor-at-large has had a varied career. As an 'antidote to 15 years in fashion', she took a job running day centres for Age Concern. This was followed by a period selling embroideries, which she sourced in India. On the plane returning from one of her buying trips Liz picked up a copy of Private Eye, which was advertising for a girl Friday. After a successful application, she spent 10 years at the magazine, where she ended up writing the Sally Deedes column (which exposed and campaigned against professional malpractice) - before coming to 'the smooth waters of House & Garden'. Liz loves her job because she ‘genuinely believes that Britain leads in design - mainly because we dare to take risks.’

Virginia joined House & Garden in 2018 as an intern on the digital team, and rose through the ranks to become Digital Director in 2023. Having been a faithful reader for years before she joined, she still can't quite believe that she gets to spend her time shooting the houses she used to peruse each month when the magazine came out.

Virginia studied Classics at Oxford University and went on to do a PhD at Princeton University. In her professional life she spends most of her time planning, commissioning and editing features for the website, organising new video series for YouTube and social media, and travelling around the country for shoots. She is based in south-east London where she has been slowly renovating a small flat.

Charlotte joined the digital team at House & Garden in 2019, following time working at Vogue and Vanity Fair. She joined with a rookie knowledge of interior design but huge love of perusing all the houses, hotels and recipes in the magazine and on the website and quickly became au fait with the Top 100, soaking up every bit of information along the way.

Charlotte studied French and Russian at Edinburgh University and also holds a WSET Level 2 degree in wines – with level 3 in the works. In her role at House & Garden, she spends time writing, commissioning and editing features across all verticals, searching for new stories, overseeing aspects of social media and travelling around the country (and sometimes further afield) for photo and video shoots. She is based in south-west London, where she lives with her husband and toddler in a midcentury flat.

Tal Dekel-Daks has been House & Garden's Senior Audience Development Manager since 2022. Based in London, Tal has a special interest in travel, food and whisky, often basing her travels around distilleries and brewery tours, or pet-friendly destinations. Tal graduated from Bournemouth University with a bachelor’s degree in multimedia journalism before taking on several internships with digital publications like Digital Spy and Company Magazine at Time Inc., and Hearst. She officially started her career as an editorial assistant at Just Opened London and Just Opened New York before working her way up the ranks to senior editor for AnalogFolk, a creative digital agency with clients like Booking.com, Absolut Vodka and Dulux. Tal then moved to New York and was the audience lead for Departures as well as freelance writing destination and food-centric pieces for publications including Travel + Leisure. Before moving to Condé Nast, Tal was the audience lead for The Independent.

Bella is House & Garden’s Commerce Editor and in-house shopping expert. She joined the magazine back in 2021, after graduating with a degree in English Literature from the University of Leeds. A staunch believer that leopard print is a neutral, she gained a keen editorial eye early in her career, assisting on fashion shoots at British Vogue.

In her role at House & Garden, Bella leads the affiliate and shopping strategy, reviewing and curating edits of  everything from sofa beds to soap dishes. She is happiest when hunting for new brands and makers, and can often be found rooting around in antique shops on Golborne Road. Bella currently lives in a mews house in west London with her partner.

Tilly joined House & Garden in 2023 as Operations Coordinator, subsequently moving up to her current role of Commerce Writer. Her previous experience includes a role at the BFI London Film Festival; prior to that, she worked in visual research for commercial film production and assisted set designers. She has a first-class degree in Set Design from Wimbledon College of Arts, graduating in 2021.

Since starting at House & Garden, Tilly has enjoyed writing about design in film and television and conducting interviews with various creatives. In her role as Commerce Writer, she researches and writes edits of interesting and unusual products, bringing a keen curatorial eye to everything she does. Her taste in design is varied and eclectic, but she has a particular love for futuristic, somewhat kitsch design of the mid-20th century, citing Verner Panton and Ettore Sottsass among her favourite designers. When not working, you can usually find her in the cinema, or at an exhibition.

The decoration team are behind all of the decoration, shopping and style photoshoots on the pages of the magazine, as well as other longform articles in print and online. They produce and art direct their photoshoots, working with a wide range of makers, photographers and set designers to create beautiful worlds that showcase new collections.

For more on what Ruth is working on, read her profile, and click through to read more about Rémy and her work.

The art team are behind all the visual elements of the magazine and website, from the smallest design details, to the font choices, layouts and, in Owen's case, deciding which photographer is best suited to shoot each project. Alongside this, Joshua and Owen regularly take photographs for the magazine, whether that be an artist in their studio or a full house story.

Behind every word that appears on the pages of House & Garden are the sub-editors, who fact check every story, come up with clever headlines, write the introductions and turn each piece into a finished article.

Operations juggle various aspects of production and are responsible for keeping things running smoothly. They are problem solvers and admin angels.

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