Found this about the magazine ...
http://www.furnituresociety.org/fin/h_furn.html
Home Furniture, the magazine launched by Taunton Press in 1994, has announced it will cease publication with the December '97 / January '98 issue. A spinoff of its sibling publication
Fine Woodworking,
Home Furniture focused on the design of custom and studio furniture. The current issue, (No. 13, Nov. 1997) includes articles on designing furniture for children, new furniture makers in the San Francisco Bay area, and a photo profile "Inside Sam Maloof's Home".
Home Furniture was targeted at the accomplished woodworker who, according to Taunton Marketing Manager Suzanne Roman, "had confidence in their skills and wanted to talk about design, not about the jig they used to pull it off." But despite continuous mailings to generate new subscribers, readership slipped steadily, according to Roman. "It's an elite group of readers; a subset of Fine Woodworking, and we couldn't find them at a cost we could sustain."
Taunton plans to incorporate elements of
Home Furniture into
Fine Woodworking, which has traditionally been more of a "how to" magazine. A design department will be added, and a monthly gallery of design is under consideration. The
Fine Woodworking cover will also be redesigned to resemble the cover of Home Furniture.
The reaction of subscribers has been stronger than anticipated, according to editor Timothy Schreiner: "The letters, emails and phone calls we have been getting are just incredible. People are pouring their hearts out. It's almost hard to read some of them. The people who loved the magazine really loved it."
The final issue will reach subscribers in early December, but will not be available at news stands. It will include articles on the ethics of copying other people's work, on the use of thin wood veneer as a design element, and a gallery of wood boxes.
