Holiday Magazine Interior and Gardens 002

As nature lifts into spring, we open the second issue of Holiday Interiors and Gardens.

This volume follows spaces shaped slowly by use, memory, and return. Places where time accumulates rather than resets. Interiors that settle, evolve, and endure.

We move through architectures that extend rather than erase, where every element becomes part of a longer continuity. Across landscapes and interiors alike, a similar logic emerges: nothing remains fixed. Forms persist, but they shift. In the summer light by a river, where the ordinary takes on a sharper presence. In lives shaped by attention and duration. In spaces that are not imposed, but built gradually through habits, objects, and time.

From a terrace overlooking the Pacific in Big Sur to more intimate interiors formed through daily use, what remains constant is not style, but a way of living. One that resists the new and instead absorbs it into what already exists. And, in doing so, a way of beginning to imagine what comes next.

Perhaps this is the thread running through the issue: a way of inhabiting the present without cutting it off from what came before.

Holiday, a new magazine with history.

Between 1946 and 1977, Holiday was one of the most exciting magazines in the United States. Renowned for its bold layout, literary credibility and ambitious choice of photographers, Holiday portrayed the world like no other periodical. The premise was simple: send a writer and photographer to a specific location and ask them to capture their vision of the place without constraints of style, length or budget. Some of the most celebrated writing by Graham Greene, Joan Didion, Jack Kerouac and Truman Capote first appeared in the pages of Holiday. At the peak of its acclaim, the magazine had more than a million subscribers.

In 2014, after a thirty-seven-year hiatus, Holiday returned at the behest of Parisian art director Franck Durand. This new Holiday remains faithful to the essence, aesthetic and sense of journalistic adventure of its forebear, but in a format that also celebrates fashion. Editorials shot by industry-leading photographers, and emerging talents alike, coexist beautifully with the work of today's top literary voices. And true to its original concept, Holiday still sends contributors afield to produce a portrait of a place that is at once intimate and timeless.

Holiday is an international, bi-annual publication.
The team who conceives, designs and produces the magazine is based in Paris.
It is written in English, but its heart is French. 

Holiday has never lost sight of the innovative concept that set it apart from all the other magazines: combining literary journalismand artistic photography.
 
A magazine in which travel was merely the ideal pretext to give life to this vision, and additionally offered the luxury of time—to discover, observe and dream. For indeed, Holiday is an interlude suspended in time, where since the beginning, the idea has been neither to regret the past not to fantasize about the future, but to savor the path between the two, as Jack Kerouac, one of the magazine’s many prestigious contributors, used to say. So it is with these founding principles—the ones that have made it legendary and still give it such a special place—in mind that we have created Holiday Interiors and Gardens.
 
For interior decoration requires almost as much curiosity as travel and, in its own way, enables us to traverse eras, styles, cultures and continents. Besides, it is a free discipline that loves to break down the boundaries between creative fields. As proof, just think of interiors designed by Balthus and Cy Twombly, furniture crafted by Francis Bacon and Paul Poiret, Dante Ferretti’s set decors for Pasolini and
 
Scorsese movies, or even simply the sofa covered with Persian carpets in Sigmund Freud’s consulting room. All of them have stood the test of time and seem to defy trends.
 
Holiday too. The magazine has always striven to demonstrate that beauty is not a subject but rather a point of view. And here is ours, which you will discover on these pages: interiors, gardens and objects, through the words of the writers and the gaze of the photographers who inspire us and have enabled us to give life to this new adventure.