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Who Reads Southern Accents?
Southern Accents defines the distinctive voice of Southern style, with beautiful homes, gracious living, and a sense of place. While its core readers are affluent Southern women in their 40s and 50s, the magazine appeals to all readers who appreciate classic design. The romantic appeal of the magazine also transcends its geographic boundaries, speaking to a national audience who embody the Southern lifestyle and those who aspire to live it.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:

• Decorating showcases the best ideas and tips for making your home beautiful, comfortable, and stylish. Regular features include: Our editor’s picks for the best new products on the market. Designers’ tips for solving decorating dilemmas, ranging from hanging art to choosing the right shade for your lamp to rearranging your bookshelves. Q & As with top Southern designers. How to incorporate the latest colors into your décor through fabric and paint.
• Gardening brings the best ideas from around the South and around the world. Regular features include: Garden Tour, tagging along with landscape architects to their favorite public gardens, both here and abroad, and giving insight on how to adapt the principles of great design to your own yard. Plant profiles that spotlight what’s blooming in the garden now, where to buy it, planting tips, and destinations where you can view beautiful displays even if you don't have a green thumb.
• Architecture celebrates the best of Southern architecture, where attention to detail and quality materials often trump size. Regular features include: Remodeling—making the most of the house you are in. Preservation stories showcasing architects and homeowners who, through a labor of love, save historic structures to last into the next century and beyond.
• Art & Antiques educates in a fun and informative way. Regular features include: Profiles of Southern artists who are making a name for themselves. Educated Eye—focusing on a different piece each issue, this column tells you what to look for when shopping for antiques to get the best possible piece. Collecting—what to look for when buying antiques.
• Entertaining offers seasonal party ideas, recipes, table settings, flower arranging, and everyday etiquette. Regular features include: Fresh ideas for parties and entertaining at home. Contributing Editor Julia Reed presents fantastic recipes and spices things up with tales of her real-life adventures in entertaining. Inspiring ideas for setting the table with style. Great at-home flower arrangements. Etiquette for the modern woman.
• Travel gives an insider’s view on some of our favorite destinations. Regular features include: City Notebook puts our own spin on travel by asking stylish locals where they eat, shop, and stay. Great Getaways to the newest resorts and spas, just right for a relaxing weekend. Sense of Place—an essay-based story celebrating what makes the South so unique.
• Feature Articles: From decorating to gardening to entertaining to travel, each issue delivers topics that address living well and surrounding yourself with beauty and meaning. Recent issues have featured the glamorous, light-filled interiors of designer Gerrie Bremermann, updated rose arrangements from florist Dejuan Stroud, and a poignant salute to the residents of New Orleans who are still striving to make a difference, years after Katrina ripped through the city.

Magazine Layout:
The graphic design of Southern Accents is as sophisticated and well-edited as the homes that appear on its pages. The use of large images invites the reader into the story, and the text complements rather than overwhelms the design. Boxed text and pull quotes provide entry points and give at-a-glance information to engage the reader right away. .

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Contributors:
Contributors vary from issue to issue and represent the best in their fields. Each brings a unique perspective and a passion for design. The author of Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and other Southern Specialties, Julia Reed is the consummate hostess who writes our food column. Her work can also be seen in Vogue and Newsweek. Other notable contributors include decorating doyenne Bunny Williams, architect Russell Versaci, antiques dealer Patrick Dunne, developer Carol Isaak Barden, and author Logan Ward.

Past Issues:


Comparisons to Other Magazines:
Southern Accents showcases “Beautiful Homes, Gracious Living, and A Sense of Place.” But its character extends beyond its content by providing readers with a deep sense of meaning and comfort. Southern Accents seeks to connect readers to their roots. Its design philosophy encourages them to have the confidence to mix tradition and personal expression. Finally, it provides the access, resources, and inspiration to help readers create a more beautiful and meaningful life.

Advertisers:
The advertisers mirror the content with the majority coming from the “homes” category, fabrics, furniture, appliances, and building materials. Real estate, automotive, and jewelry brands are seen throughout the pages as well. The advertising complements rather than competes with editorial, striking a nice balance.

Product Description
SOUTHERN ACCENTS celebrates the best of the South. Each issue features the finest homes and gardens along with a balance of features that reflect the affluent lifestyles of its readers including architecture, antiques, entertaining, collecting and travel.

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Who Reads Southern Accents?
Southern Accents defines the distinctive voice of Southern style, with beautiful homes, gracious living, and a sense of place. While its core readers are affluent Southern women in their 40s and 50s, the magazine appeals to all readers who appreciate classic design. The romantic appeal of the magazine also transcends its geographic boundaries, speaking to a national audience who embody the Southern lifestyle and those who aspire to live it.

What You Can Expect in Each Issue:

• Decorating showcases the best ideas and tips for making your home beautiful, comfortable, and stylish. Regular features include: Our editor’s picks for the best new products on the market. Designers’ tips for solving decorating dilemmas, ranging from hanging art to choosing the right shade for your lamp to rearranging your bookshelves. Q & As with top Southern designers. How to incorporate the latest colors into your décor through fabric and paint.
• Gardening brings the best ideas from around the South and around the world. Regular features include: Garden Tour, tagging along with landscape architects to their favorite public gardens, both here and abroad, and giving insight on how to adapt the principles of great design to your own yard. Plant profiles that spotlight what’s blooming in the garden now, where to buy it, planting tips, and destinations where you can view beautiful displays even if you don't have a green thumb.
• Architecture celebrates the best of Southern architecture, where attention to detail and quality materials often trump size. Regular features include: Remodeling—making the most of the house you are in. Preservation stories showcasing architects and homeowners who, through a labor of love, save historic structures to last into the next century and beyond.
• Art & Antiques educates in a fun and informative way. Regular features include: Profiles of Southern artists who are making a name for themselves. Educated Eye—focusing on a different piece each issue, this column tells you what to look for when shopping for antiques to get the best possible piece. Collecting—what to look for when buying antiques.
• Entertaining offers seasonal party ideas, recipes, table settings, flower arranging, and everyday etiquette. Regular features include: Fresh ideas for parties and entertaining at home. Contributing Editor Julia Reed presents fantastic recipes and spices things up with tales of her real-life adventures in entertaining. Inspiring ideas for setting the table with style. Great at-home flower arrangements. Etiquette for the modern woman.
• Travel gives an insider’s view on some of our favorite destinations. Regular features include: City Notebook puts our own spin on travel by asking stylish locals where they eat, shop, and stay. Great Getaways to the newest resorts and spas, just right for a relaxing weekend. Sense of Place—an essay-based story celebrating what makes the South so unique.
• Feature Articles: From decorating to gardening to entertaining to travel, each issue delivers topics that address living well and surrounding yourself with beauty and meaning. Recent issues have featured the glamorous, light-filled interiors of designer Gerrie Bremermann, updated rose arrangements from florist Dejuan Stroud, and a poignant salute to the residents of New Orleans who are still striving to make a difference, years after Katrina ripped through the city.

Magazine Layout:
The graphic design of Southern Accents is as sophisticated and well-edited as the homes that appear on its pages. The use of large images invites the reader into the story, and the text complements rather than overwhelms the design. Boxed text and pull quotes provide entry points and give at-a-glance information to engage the reader right away. .

Click on any image below to see select pages from Southern Accents:



Contributors:
Contributors vary from issue to issue and represent the best in their fields. Each brings a unique perspective and a passion for design. The author of Ham Biscuits, Hostess Gowns, and other Southern Specialties, Julia Reed is the consummate hostess who writes our food column. Her work can also be seen in Vogue and Newsweek. Other notable contributors include decorating doyenne Bunny Williams, architect Russell Versaci, antiques dealer Patrick Dunne, developer Carol Isaak Barden, and author Logan Ward.

Past Issues:


Comparisons to Other Magazines:
Southern Accents showcases “Beautiful Homes, Gracious Living, and A Sense of Place.” But its character extends beyond its content by providing readers with a deep sense of meaning and comfort. Southern Accents seeks to connect readers to their roots. Its design philosophy encourages them to have the confidence to mix tradition and personal expression. Finally, it provides the access, resources, and inspiration to help readers create a more beautiful and meaningful life.

Advertisers:
The advertisers mirror the content with the majority coming from the “homes” category, fabrics, furniture, appliances, and building materials. Real estate, automotive, and jewelry brands are seen throughout the pages as well. The advertising complements rather than competes with editorial, striking a nice balance.

Product Details

• Format: Magazine
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• Publisher: Southern Progress
• ASIN: B00005R8BF
• Note: Gift-wrapping is not available for this item.
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #443 in Magazines (See Bestsellers in Magazines)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the best decorating magazine!, December 29, 2002

By	"willwcarr" - See all my reviews

I subscribe to all of the home and garden magazines and Southern Accents is the best, bar none. The houses featured are absolutely dreamy--the photography is gorgeous--and while the magazine doesn't offer how-to decorating ideas, there is so much inspiration. I find it to be intelligently written...which is rare in a decorating magazine. The articles on antiques are particularly informative. This magazine will appeal to anyone who is interested in beautiful, classic design--whether or not you live in the South!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars comfort and elegance, December 21, 2003

By	Alejandra Vernon "artist & illustrator" (Long Beach, California) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (COMMUNITY FORUM 04)

This is a lovely magazine, with lots of articles on Southern style and luxurious living. Every issue has "Accents", showing what is new and trendy and where to buy it; "Calendar", for events and exhibitions worth seeing, and "Educated Eye", with advice on what to look for to evaluate antique furniture, etc. if you are a serious collector.

There are features on beautiful gardens, art and museums, antiques and shopping, design and entertaining tips, but mostly it is about tasteful homes and the people who own them.
There is a relaxed atmosphere to what we see of these rooms and terraces, as if people really live in the environment, and not (as is sometimes seen in magazines of this type) that a decorator has gussied the place up for the photographer. It is friendly elegance, with grace and charm.
With six issues a year, good quality glossy paper, wonderful photography, and even some interesting ads (many from stores located in Dallas, Atlanta and New Orleans), this is a magazine I look forward to receiving.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars best home & garden magazine, November 27, 2007

By	Nadia (Hoboken, NJ) - See all my reviews

After subscribing to a number of home & garden magazines, I have found that only Southern Accents has that truly southern timeless style that is really inspiring. Porches with fans, crown molding galore, regal touches of gold, french antiques, etc, etc. With regard to the reviewer who claimed that this is European and not Southern... where did he/she think the style and culture of New Orleans came from???