Vogue House was the home of Vogue, Tatler, GQ, World of Interiors, House & Garden, Condé Nast Traveller and Brides magazines for six decades but they are all due to leave the building in January 2024. There are few buildings in London that have been so important to the national cultural conversation as Vogue House. The old BBC Television Centre in Shephard’s Bush is certainly one, as is Broadcasting House at the top of Regent Street. Places where entertainment, knowledge, debate, news and learning were and are devised, created and disseminated. Buildings embedded into the national consciousness as bastions of creativity, solidity, and quality through their output.
The Condé Nast HQ is less known, but arguably no less important. In this book Scott traces the evolution of magazine publishing in the United Kingdom through the journalists, photographers, writers and art directors that were responsible for creating the magazines that set the cultural agenda and conversation.
n this respect this book acts as a metaphor for the decline of the impact of the monthly magazine within a global publishing environment. It is not just a story of a building, but one of progress and communication, society and economics, global expansion and expectation. It’s bigger than one corner of Hanover Square.
Condé Nast Has Left The Building: Sixty Years of Vogue House
Grant Scott
Orphans Publishing
February 2024
The Author
After fifteen years art directing photography books and magazines such as Elle and Tatler, Dr Grant Scott began to work solely as a photographer, art director, editor and creative director for a number of commercial and editorial clients in 2000. He is the founder/curator of United Nations of Photography, a Senior Lecturer and Subject Co-ordinator: Photography at Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, a working photographer, documentary filmmaker, podcaster, and BBC Radio contributor. His previous books include At Home With The Makers of Style (Thames & Hudson 2006) Professional Photography: The New Global Landscape Explained (Routledge 2014), The Essential Student Guide to Professional Photography (Routledge 2015), New Ways of Seeing: The Democratic Language of Photography (Routledge 2019) and What Does Photography Mean to You? (Bluecoat Press 2020). His film Do Not Bend: The Photographic Life of Bill Jay was first screened in 2018 www.donotbendfilm.com. He is the presenter of the A Photographic Life weekly podcast.
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