{{Short description|American magazine}} {{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox magazine | title = Metropolitan Home | image_file = MetropolitanHomeMagazineCover.jpg | image_size = 180px | image_alt = Metropolitan Home magazine cover | image_caption = | editor = Donna Warner | editor_title = Editor-in-Chief | previous_editor = | staff_writer = | frequency = Bi-monthly | circulation = | finaldate = | finalnumber = | category = Interior design | company = | publisher = Hearst Magazines | founded = 1974, 2016 (relaunch) | country = United States | based = New York City, New York | language = English | website = {{URL|http://metropolitanhome.com}} | issn = 0273-2858 }}
'''''Metropolitan Home''''' is an interior design magazine published by Hearst Magazines. The magazine focuses on "high-end modern design and interiors, blended with intelligent reporting, to connect with a progressive reader mindset."
==History and profile== The magazine was launched in 1969 as ''Apartment Life''.<ref>{{cite news|author=Stephanie Clifford|title=Metropolitan Home Will Close After Its December Issue|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/10/business/media/10home.html?_r=0|access-date=5 December 2015|work=The New York Times|date=9 November 2009|page=B4}}</ref> It focused primarily on urban lifestyles. The final issue of ''Apartment Life'' was February 1981. In April 1981, the publisher rebranded it as ''Metropolitan Home''.<ref name=last>{{cite news|title=The Last Page|url=http://adage.com/article/media/a-guide-magazines-ceased-publication/132779/|access-date=28 July 2015|work=Advertising Age|date=15 December 2009}}</ref>
''Metropolitan Home'' was part of the Meredith Corporation until 1992 when it was acquired by Hachette Publications.<ref name=dcar>{{cite news|author=Deirdre Carmody|title=Hachette Acquires Metropolitan Home|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/11/04/business/the-media-business-hachette-acquires-metropolitan-home.html|access-date=5 December 2015|work=The New York Times|date=4 November 1992}}</ref> The first issue under Hachette appeared in January 1993. The publisher reduced it from monthly to bi-monthly publication.<ref name=dcar/> Its annual Design 100 issue was their largest selling single issue.
In 2009, Hachette decided to concentrate on its top interior design magazine, ''Elle Decor'', and shut down ''Metropolitan Home''. The December 2009 issue of ''Metropolitan Home'' was the last issue published until 2016.<ref name="david">{{cite book|author1=David Abrahamson|author2=Marcia R. Prior-Miller|title=The Routledge Handbook of Magazine Research: The Future of the Magazine Form|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8EHLCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA181|access-date=5 December 2015|date=5 June 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-52453-3|pages=181–}}</ref><ref name=last/><ref>{{cite web|author=Bill Mickey|title=Hachette Closing ''Metropolitan Home''|url=http://www.foliomag.com/2009/hachette-closing-metropolitan-home|work=Folio|publisher=Access Intelligence|date=9 November 2009|access-date = 12 July 2010}}</ref>
In 2016, new owner Hearst began publishing ''Metropolitan Home''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://subscribe.hearstmags.com/subscribe/splits/crosssite/methome_redir_splashpage/|title=Metropolitan Home|website=subscribe.hearstmags.com}}</ref>
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==External links== *{{Official website|http://metropolitanhome.com}}
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