''Nest: A Quarterly of Interiors'' was a magazine published from 1997 to 2004, for a total run of 26 issues. The first issue was Fall 1997, and the second issue was Fall 1998. Thereafter, the issues were Winter '98-'99, Spring '99, Summer '99, Fall '99, Winter '99-'00, and so on until Fall '04. The founder was Joseph Holtzman.{{cite news, author=Jeff Bercovici, title=Nest as the interior of imagination, url=http://www.medialifemagazine.com:8080/news2001/apr01/apr23/1_mon/news3monday.html, archive-url=https://archive.today/20120904035728/http://www.medialifemagazine.com:8080/news2001/apr01/apr23/1_mon/news3monday.html, url-status=dead, archive-date=September 4, 2012, accessdate=November 23, 2015, work=Media Life Magazine, date=April 23, 2001 It was published in

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. Marketed as an interior design magazine, and edited by Joseph Holtzman, ''Nest'' generally eschewed the conventionally beautiful luxury interiors showcased in other magazines, and instead featured photographs of nontraditional, exceptional, and unusual environments. Fred A. Bernstein, writing in ''the New York Times'', wrote that Joseph Holtzman "believed that an igloo, a prison cell or a child's attic room (adorned with Farrah Fawcett posters) could be as compelling as a room by a famous designer." During its run, ''Nest'' showed the room of a 40-year-old diaper lover, the lair of an Indonesian bird that decorates with colored stones and vomit, the final resting place of

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, the quarters of Navy seamen, a barbed-wire-trimmed bed that doubled as a tank, and a Gothic Christmas card from filmmaker

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. Noted architect

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called it "an anti-materialistic, idealistic magazine about the hyperspecific in a world that is undergoing radical leveling, an 'interior design' magazine hostile to the cosmetic."Holtzman, Joseph
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was quoted as saying that Mr. Holtzman "channeled the collective unconscious, to give us the pleasure of ornament before we even knew we wanted it."

Awards

* 2000, General Excellence Award
The American Society of Magazine Editors
* 2001, Best Design
The American Society of Magazine Editors

References

External links

The now defunct website of ''Nest: A Quarterly of Interiors''

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