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There will be a book about the cultural significance of Conde Nast's move from Vogue House (britishphotohistory.ning.com) :
Condé Nast Has Left The Building: Sixty Years of Vogue House
By Dr Grant Scott
Orphans Publishing
February 2025
Vogue House was the home of Vogue, Tatler, GQ, World of Interiors, House & Garden, Condé Nast Traveller and Brides magazines for six decades but they are all due to leave the building in January 2024. There are few buildings in London that have been so important to the national cultural conversation as Vogue House. The old BBC Television Centre in Shephard’s Bush is certainly one, as is Broadcasting House at the top of Regent Street. Places where entertainment, knowledge, debate, news and learning were and are devised, created and disseminated. Buildings embedded into the national consciousness as bastions of creativity, solidity, and quality through their output.
The Condé Nast HQ is less known, but arguably no less important. In this book Scott traces the evolution of magazine publishing in the United Kingdom through the journalists, photographers, writers and art directors that were responsible for creating the magazines that set the cultural agenda and conversation.
In this respect this book acts as a metaphor for the decline of the impact of the monthly magazine within a global publishing environment. It is not just a story of a building, but one of progress and communication, society and economics, global expansion and expectation. It’s bigger than one corner of Hanover Square.
The Author
After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Dr Grant Scott began to work solely as a photographer, art director, editor and creative director for a number of commercial and editorial clients in 2000. He is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, podcaster, and BBC Radio contributor.
Condé Nast Has Left The Building: Sixty Years of Vogue House
By Dr Grant Scott
Orphans Publishing
February 2025
Vogue House was the home of Vogue, Tatler, GQ, World of Interiors, House & Garden, Condé Nast Traveller and Brides magazines for six decades but they are all due to leave the building in January 2024. There are few buildings in London that have been so important to the national cultural conversation as Vogue House. The old BBC Television Centre in Shephard’s Bush is certainly one, as is Broadcasting House at the top of Regent Street. Places where entertainment, knowledge, debate, news and learning were and are devised, created and disseminated. Buildings embedded into the national consciousness as bastions of creativity, solidity, and quality through their output.
The Condé Nast HQ is less known, but arguably no less important. In this book Scott traces the evolution of magazine publishing in the United Kingdom through the journalists, photographers, writers and art directors that were responsible for creating the magazines that set the cultural agenda and conversation.
In this respect this book acts as a metaphor for the decline of the impact of the monthly magazine within a global publishing environment. It is not just a story of a building, but one of progress and communication, society and economics, global expansion and expectation. It’s bigger than one corner of Hanover Square.
The Author
After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Dr Grant Scott began to work solely as a photographer, art director, editor and creative director for a number of commercial and editorial clients in 2000. He is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, podcaster, and BBC Radio contributor.
